DUTCH HARBOUR RAID
STORY TOLD BY EVACUEES LONDON, June 25 Japanese planes subjected Dutch Harbour, Alaska, to heavy bombing and machine-gunning on June 3, according to evacuees from Unalaska. the most important of the Aleutian islands. The evacuees include soldiers, construction workers, women and children. They arrived at Seattle aboard an army transport which .took part in the action and whose gun crews played a valiant role in the defence of Dutch Harbour. ' The Japanese attacking force was expected and when about 20 aeroplanes came over they were met by a barrage of fire from the transport and the shore. The transport became the chief .target for the bombers as she rrfoved from the shore with guns blazing, but she escaped a direct hit and her gunners accounted for a bomber and two fighters. On shore the Japanese bombs blbw up an old tank. Five hundred women and children were sheltered in cellars and dug-outs and some had been taken to a sheltered valley.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20827, 4 July 1942, Page 5
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164DUTCH HARBOUR RAID Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20827, 4 July 1942, Page 5
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