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Word: paramosmiri (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...separated from Russian-owned Big Diomede by only a mile and a half of open water. Its westernmost Pacific Ocean island (Attu) is only 250 miles southeast of Russia's advance submarine base on the Komandorskie Islands, only 696 miles east of Japan's advance base on Paramosmiri Island, off the toe of Kamchatka. An airplane from any of these Asiatic strongholds can cross the international date line and be over U. S. territory in 20 to 24 hours before it takes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Strategic Map: Northwest Frontier | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

...their main jobs was to increase the Army's knowledge of cold-weather living and maneuvering. Then the U. S. found out that the U. S. S. R. was extending its bases north along the Siberian coast, and that Japan had built a naval base at Paramosmiri Island, just south of Kamchatka. These bases threaten each other. They also threaten Alaska...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STRATEGY: Fortifying Alaska | 8/5/1940 | See Source »

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