BOMBED OFF KISKA
JAPANESE DESTROYERS CREWS ABANDON SHIPS (Noon) NEW YORK, Oct. 26. Low-flying Marauder bombers carried out a "deck-level attack against enemv shipping at Kiska on Friday, says the United Press correspondent on Alaska, quoting an Army Headquarters’ announcement. The Marauders' found -destroyers disguised as cargo ships. The attackers saw crates on the ships’ decks fly high through -smoke, flame and geysers of water. Japanese sailors were seen going over the side and clinging to the wreckage. The ships were the first Japanese naval craft sighted near Kiska for several days. An army official said it is believed that the crates on the decks contained fighter planes for the Kiska garrison which apparently is without fighter protection. The army announcer indicated that there will be continued relentless attacks to drive the Jaoanese from the Aleutians.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20919, 20 October 1942, Page 4
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