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June 11, 1942

Manila woke up to the sound of 100 billboards being erected. They show Midway as being in Japanese hands since December 10 — six months ago! Tokyo radio says the Japanese occupied "important points" in the Aleutians. KGEI countered twenty minutes later with: "All is quiet in the Aleutians.... The Japs will find it hard to take Alaska by radio broadcasts." Or Midway by billboards.