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Under the shroud of fog the four men paddled quietly towards shore. The submarine which had brought them turned its nose again to the open sea, vanished into the Atlantic...
...Washington attempts were made to shrug off the obscure Jap moves in the Aleutians as feints or minor encroachments. But the U.S. had reason to worry. Kiska has not only a good harbor but some flat land for airfields. The busy little Japs were under cover of Aleutian fog, and probably building air and submarine bases, emplacing anti-aircraft guns, sneaking in shells, bombs and torpedoes. Apparently anticipating a Japanese move east to Atka Island and northeast to the Pribilof Islands, the Army announced the evacuation of 550 natives to southeastern Alaska...
Exactly what happened out there in the water on a certain June night cannot be told. But the people of a small New England town (pop. less than 4,000) can guess. About 11 p.m., when the fog cleared and the stars came out, Frank Aresta, a policeman (by day, a grocer) on dimout duty, saw a flash followed by low, rolling thunder, then another and another. Said he to Carpenter James Thomas: "Storm, hell-that's shootin'." He telephoned the Coast Guard station. Soon a plane roared...
Preparations for Disaster. At 6:45 next morning the fog was in. A Coast Guard lieutenant telephoned Gift Shop Owner John Rosenthal, local chairman of the Committee on Public Safety (TIME, June 29), told him to prepare for survivors from a sea disaster. By 7 o'clock, housewives, schoolteachers, nurses, shopkeepers, artists, artists' wives, fishermen, with arm bands designating them as first-aiders, auxiliary police, canteen workers, air-raid wardens, were running along the streets to the wharf and the Report Center...
...When an Army post in fog-wrapped Alaska screamed for huge 10,000-gal. gas tanks and 4-ton gas trucks to go with them, the airlines sliced up the tanks and trucks with acetylene torches, stuffed the pieces into airplane bellies, flew them right to the post. Mechanics in Alaska welded them back together...