An item reported that when 8 US naval aircraft bombed Japanese installations and shipping in the Kiska area [Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska] on 8 August 2-500 pound bombs hit each of the two cargo ships and 1-1,000 pound bomb the main camp area. Close to the shore of Kiska Harbor was 1 transport or cargo ship sighted on a partially submerged condition.
Source
Map Room Papers (Roosevelt Administration), 1942 - 1945. U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary No. 244 dated 11 August 1942.
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