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Theater of Aleutian Battle
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The map shows the strategic position of Hawaii, Midway
island and Dutch Harbor. Enemy action is believed to be
continuing in the Aleutian sector.
Seattle (^P)—Jap invaders in
the Aleutians are “getting smack
ed whenever there is a rift in the
fog banks” a Thirteenth Naval
District spokesman said, declar
ing that “the so-called mystery
of the Aleutian battle is meiely
a mystery of weather, including
fog and snow, coupled with a
desire to keep the enemy in the
dark. If the public is confused,
then so is the enemy and‘that
is all to the good. You can’t
make a statement about a battle
until a battle is decided. As Ad
miral King told the American
people the battle is continuing,
and as a'ready announced the
attack was no surprise and init
ial attack at Dutch Harbor were
met.”
The statement continued “It’si
a weird, wild country up there.
There are great patches of fog
and rain in which the enemy
can hide as a band of guerillas
may hide in the bush. There are
literally thousands of small bays
and inlets. The Japs know the
country bu*' so does the Navy.
“Why haven’t the Army and
Navy already driven the Japs
| out? The Aleutian weather ex
I plains that in part. It’s one thing
to get at them in clear skies, an
other to get at them in weather
foul with snow and with quick
forming ice burdening the wings
of planes.
“You can depend on It the
Japs are getting smacked and
some of the greatest stories of
the war and some of the finest
contributions to Naval tradition
will come out of this strange
struggle of give and take in the
Aleutians.
“I wouldn’t want to be one of
those Japs up there. Suppose
yon spent years as a Jap fisher
man in Alaska, or as a busboy
in Seattle and had gone back
home a few weeks before Pearl
Harbor. Then suppose because
of your experience you are sent
on this Aleutian expedition to
occupy the outer islands and to
try to take Alaska outposts.
Such a Jap knows where he is
but he also knows with whom he
is dealing. He knows the type of
men who is above the fog and
out dehind the snow and rain
squalls searching for him. This
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Jap knows that if ho isn t gone
today he will be tomorrow, be
cause these men are determined
that even though the American
flag was lowered in the Philip
pines it will not be lowered on
the North American continent
“Those are real men up there
standing between us and the
enemy.”
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consumer services will be limited
beginning July 1 to the highest
levels charged during March.
The OPA issued the price ceiling
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