World Battlefronts: Advance toward Kiska

Both sides used the winter months to extend feverishly the positions they had set up in the late fall of 1942. It seems that on both sides this has been finished. . . . All in all, Americans in this area have accomplished constructions and are in the midst of their preparations for a general attack against Japmese bases at Attu and Kiska.

So prophesied radio Berlin last week. Two days later, a U.S. Navy communique announced that Army and Navy forces had occupied Amchitka, an island in the Rat group in the Aleutians, only 60 miles from the Japs' main base...

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