DUTCH HARBOR DAMAGE LIGHT
The Portsmouth Times
PORTSMOUTH, OHIO, THURSDAY, JUNE 4. 1942
JAP AIR ASSAULT
PUTS ALL COAST
POINTS ON ALERT
Navy Reports Fires Put Out Quickly At
Alaskan Base; Strike Regarded As
Reprisal For Tokyo Blow Or Test
Of American Forces In Area
WASHINGTON:, Juno — The navy, describing
the .situation at Dutch Harbor, Alaska, as quiet at
present, reported today that the second wave of enemy
planes which flew over the base yesterday failed
to drop bombs and probably was engaged only in reconnaissance.
A communique declared total damage at the base
was not extensive and fires were extinguished quickly
after the initial raid yesterday morning.
While the source of the attacking aircraft has not
been determined, the communique said (hey are believed
to have been carrier-based. .
The raids shifted focus of the Pacific war to North
America itself today and put defenses from the Aleutian
Islands to Panama on the alert against further
thrusts.
British Land In Environs Of Boulogne
Light Force Put Ashore To
Get Information; Flight
To Bremen Aimed To Hit
Important Shipyards
By The Associated Press
LONDON, June 4—British
bombers blasted Bremen, Germany's
second seaport, and British
Commandos fruitfully scouted
the Boulogne-Le Touquet area
of Adolf Hitler's French coastal
defenses overnight, government
agencies announced today
The Bremen raid, 94th of the
war, was linked with an attack
on the Dieppe docks. The air
m i n i s t r y announced that 10
bombers and two fighters were
missing from the night operations.
A s t r o n g RAF force flew
through moonlit skies to strike
at Bremen's shipbuilding a n d
submarine yards, d o c k s , railways,
steel works, oil refining installations
and an aircraft factory
in a follow-up to the mass
raids on Cologne and Essen.
Only Hamburg ranks ahead of
Bremen as a German maritime
center.
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