LOOSE TALK
THE KISKA INVASION JAPANESE KNEW EXAGT DATE ■ ■■'. ———: '' . ■ » (Rec. 12.45 p.m.) ' NEW YORK, Feb. 29. Unauthorised persons, military and civilian,; so openly discussed the Kiska invasion date, July 15. at the embarkation port of Seattle that the Japanese had full knowledge of the im-pending-invasion, enabling them to get
out thousands of troops and great quantities of material, said Major Albert Stowe, of the army intelligence. He .added that there were no Japanese on the island when the troop 3 arrived, but so accurately and so early were the Japanese advised that had they decided "to fight and implemented the* defenders the Allied forces might have been annihilated.
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Evening Star, Issue 25113, 1 March 1944, Page 5
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