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Show They Scared Japanese Troops From Kiska r . Moving speedily and cautiously, American and Canadian troops are pictured as they neared the island of Kiska on the first day of operations there. They are transferring to a landing craft. The Japanese, in their first such action of the war, made no attempt to defend the island. They I fled, allowing the Allies to take it without a battle. According to Vice Ad-I Ad-I miral Thomas C. Kinkaid, commander of the North Pacific forces, the If all of Kiska puts America in an offensive rather than a defensive posi-tion posi-tion in the Aleutians. This new victory makes the use of land based bombers against Jap bases in the Kurile islands more feasible. |