Navy Department Communique No. 90

JUNE 21, 1942

The Navy Department today issued the following communiqué based on reports received up to 3 p. m., June 21, 1942:

North Pacific Area.

1. Operations in the Aleutians continue to be restricted by considerations of weather and great distances.
2. Within the last few days, however, the weather was sufficiently clear at times to permit some restricted air operations against Kiska where tents and minor temporary structures were observed to have been set up on land. A small force of Japanese ships in the harbor was bombed by Army aircraft. Hits were reported on one cruiser, and a transport has been sunk.