Week’s News Highlights
Command Unified
Washington (JP) — Creation
of a unified command of all air
craft operations in the Aleutians
was announced by the Navy de
partment, which said no details
of the command relationships
nor exact location of headquart
ers could be disclosed as it would
be of value to the enemy.
The Navy reported, however,
that Naval and Army aircraft
would come under the same
system of operation control
under one head which the Unit
ed commands of joint operations
in Hawaii, Australia, and Canal
Zones, the Eastern Caribbean
and various sea frontiers has
found to be effective.
Aboard Bomber
(By Keith Wheeler—Copy
right by the Chicago Times)—
Released by the Navy—Aboard
a Fortress Bomber en route to
Kiska, June 26— We are about
an hour from our target and our
radioman picks up the distress
message from a PBY Catalina
flying boat scouting ahead. He
is caught by a Jup lighter plane
over Kiska and lie's trying, to
ge home One gunner is dead,
another is wounded in the leg
and the Naval photographer has
a bullet through his back and
may die before they get in. One
aileron control has been shot
away. He’s having trouble keep
ing the big boat under control.
In another hour we’ll be over
Kiska ourselves and 500-pound
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racks will pay off for that. We
don’t know what we’ll find at
Kiska or how much we'll be
able to see. Even if there is fog
we won’t be bringing our bombs
home again.
Calls For Oust
Washington (^T*) — Delegate
Dimond has called on the War
and Navy departments to send
“a first class” force to Alaska to
oust the Japs from the Aleu
tians. Dimond said “we fought
; he invaders at Midway but we
haven’t in the Aleutians. If we
behave the same way at Mid
way the Japs would have had
Midway and some of the Ha
waiian islands by this time. The
Japs are becoming firmly estab
lished and are printing articles
telling about their successes. If,
we asserted ourselves they would
n’t make that progress.”
Dimond said that newspaper
accounts of landings tend to con
firm his private reports that the
Jap forces numbered 25,000
troops.
interpretation
New Yoik OP)—De Witt
MacKenzie, Associated Press
and Wide World war analyst,
had this to say interpreting the
situation in Alaska.
“Public concern over the con
tinued Jap occupation in the
Aleutians appears to have
mounted rapidly in the past few
days. Increasingly one hears the
question as to just why it is the
invaders of American soil have
n’t been evicted. The growing
anxiety is undoubtedly stimulat
ed by the knowledge that the
Nipponese occupation of Aleu
tian bases not only threatens
Alaska but is intimately connect
ed with the possibility of air
attacks against Siberia ”
“This is certainly the answer
to the continued presence of the
enemy but I doubt if it is what
the readers expects. One reason
is the well-known weather of the
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one can find. But I believe the
more vital reason is simply that
we have not had the naval forces
to spare. The Navy can’t expect
to undertake the mission with a
handful of ships.The job calls for
a considerable force. Thus far
we haven’t been able, or so I
believe, to mass enough ships
for the operation. That shouldn’t
cause the public any surprise.
We possess the ships all right,
but they are spread out over the
Seven Seas performing mighty
tasks to keep the wheels of
the Allied war machine turning.
“Why don't we call some of
these ships to clear out the Aleu
tians? Presumably because, while
authorities fully recognize the
danger of the Jap occupation,
that danger is less pressing than
other perils whcili have to be
met. Should an emergency de
velop in the Aleutians undoubt
edly we would see Navy action
Fast enough.”
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