Ctft For JIM HUDELSON Grateful acknowledgment is made to The Crcnvell-Collier Publishing Company for permission to reprint certain sections of this book, which first appeared in Colliers Magazine. TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I The Invasion That Failed i II Our Unknown Front 31 III Mission Over Kiska 44 IV Three Stories 55 V Landbridge 88 VI Mummies, Volcanoes, Sea-Otters 102 VII They Came to Attu 1 22 VIII We Even Had a Tree ... 130 IX A Postscript 137 Cut . Jke MtVadion, Jkai halted History can turn on a very small hinge. The history of Alaska, and perhaps the history of the American continent, swung last June on a little handful of land based fighter-planes and bombers, appearing out of nowhere in the swirling Aleutian fog. . . . For the Japs were planning more than the capture o Dutch Harbor, on that fateful third of June. There is little doubt now that their grandiose scheme envisioned an actual assault, by way of Alaska, on our Pacific north west. The Japs wanted and, make no...

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