Word: paramoshiri
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...Japs sent two waves of twin-engined bombers to the area, presumably from Paramoshiri or an aircraft carrier. They did no damage...
...Objective. Occupation of Attu will give the U.S. a bomber strip which the Japs recently built (but apparently have never been able to use in the foul Aleutian weather). That strip, when & if it can be used, places the Jap naval base at Paramoshiri, 750 miles to the west on the Northern tip of the Kurile Islands, within easy reach of U.S. bombers. Established there, U.S. fighting men would be only 650 miles from Hokkaido, topmost of the main Japanese islands...
...miles into the north Pacific toward Tokyo, lie the U.S. Aleutian Islands (see map, p. 17). The outermost U.S. base, Dutch Harbor, is 2,550 miles from Tokyo-well beyond effective bomber range. But the Aleutians stretch halfway to Japan's little-known naval base at Paramoshiri in the Kuriles, which means that they could be either targets for Japanese attack or U.S. steppingstones toward Japan. Heavily armed, carefully balanced striking forces might take off from Alaska and the Aleutians, perhaps get the use of Russia's naval base at Petropavlovsk, fight for footholds in the Kuriles, then...
...Formosa, clamp down the blockade of Japan that strategists have long envisioned, and, if Russian air bases were put at U.S. disposal, might bomb Japan's main naval and industrial establishments. From Alaska the U.S. Navy might punch air raids into Japan's northern advance base at Paramoshiri Island, south of the Kamchatka peninsula. From Guam and Wake, regained, U.S. Army and Navy Air Forces could bomb the Japanese mandated islands and begin to forge a chain that would be stout and confining...