Word: paramoshiri
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...Kuriles within the last two and a half months, were better prepared for this one. Heavy anti-aircraft fire let loose and 25 Jap fighters rose to intercept the U.S. force of Mitchells and Liberators that roared over. In a 50-minute duel over the northernmost Jap base of Paramoshiri ten, possibly 13, of the Japs were shot down...
Japan flinched last week under the second U.S. raid on Paramoshiri in the Kuril Islands, 1,500 mi. from Tokyo...
...Three days earlier, U.S. bombers, skirting the Aleutian fogs, smashed at the strong Japanese home base of Paramoshiri, in the Kurile Islands. As the planes circled the rocky island, they saw an antique fortress, a square mile of modern military installations, a ship-filled harbor. The bomb bays opened. Fires flared up throughout the area, near hits were scored on harbor shipping. The raiders took nearly 200 photographs...
Commenting on the Paramoshiri raid, the commander of the U.S. bomber groups in China, Colonel Eugene Beebe, said "They ain't seen nothing...
Beyond the Outpost. As has been true on every other Pacific front, the Japs were cool fighters. But with Attu firmly in the U.S. grasp, Kiska gravely threatened and the Jap naval base at Paramoshiri only 750 miles beyond the westernmost U.S. outpost, signs of nervousness began to appear in Tokyo. Blustered the Jap, in an official broadcast: "If in the future Russia ever puts her Siberian bases at the disposal of the U.S., the Japanese Army will resort to a blitzkrieg that will deal upon her the heaviest blows Russia has ever known...