Show alcan highway will help oust japs from aleutians Aleut ians alaska Is our first line of af defense against our war with japan and its strategic importance to the safety of df continental united states can C an hardly be overestimated up lip to this time this vast wilderness outpost has hai been reached by only two main routes air and water the alcan highway will provide a third and possibly the most important route to this strategic alrea it will enable soldiers and ani nored equipment to reach fair banks in 80 hours from edmonton alberta this trip at present by ocean fr orn seattle takes eight days to anchorage and another day to fairbanks the jap occupation of kiska attu aatu and in the aleutian chain brought into strong focus the mill military importance ot of alaska about japs were landed the enemy has been een repeatedly bombed iri in their main stronghold on the island ot of kiska by heavy U S bombers and has been blasted by the fleet more recently the navy landed yank troops in the andreanoff Andrean Andrea not of islands only miles east of kiska without the loss of a single man this operation of blasting the japs from the Aleut aleutians ians is one of 0 the biggest and most important of the war and the alcan highway will play a major role in keeping our forces supplied with reinforcements and supplies it will be a grand day for america and the world when the first brown army track truck rolls into fairbanks over the alcan |