Word: kamchatka
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...kissed northern seas, caught the Japs by surprise, hit their targets with 18 tons of bombs and 4,500 lb. of incendiaries. At least five of 40 intercepting Zeros were shot down. Two U.S. bombers did not return, may have made emergency landings on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula...
...things hinged on getting the Japs out: How could the Russians give the U.S. bases in Russia whence to attack the Jap until the Alaskan approaches were clear? Soon the Jap might strike at Russia. At that moment the U.S would desperately need clear sailing between Dutch Harbor and Kamchatka...
...Japan had moved into the Aleutians, flanking Soviet Kamchatka and sitting athwart one important U.S.-Russian communication line...
...means whereby Japan marched south could be employed here for another march south, but against Tokyo." Expert Kiralfy sees the invasion of Hokkaido taking place not only from Sakhalin, but via the Kuril Islands, which continue the Aleutian chain. "American carrier planes and bombing squadrons based upon Kamchatka could participate in a move that would serve a double purpose. The seizure of the Kuriles would completely open the way for United Nations forces to flow into Manchuria and Karafuto. They would endanger the eastern horn of Hokkaido as the Karafuto offensive would endanger that to the west. So great would...
...Wait!" But the Japanese, given six months' grace in the Indies, may be very strongly entrenched. India, Australia, or both may fall. The Japanese may move against Russia's Vladivostok and its bases in Kamchatka, between Alaska and Japan. They may even strike at the U.S. Aleutians, and then toward Alaska. Germany may strike at the great oil and supply centers of the Persian Gulf and the Caucasus, or at western Africa. The enemy was certain to attempt some of these stratagems very soon; in proper conjunction, they might win the war while the Allies prepared...