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Kuriles

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Kuriles: see Kuril Islands Kuril Islands or Kuriles , Jap. Chishima-Retto, Rus. Kurilskiye Ostrova, island chain, c.6,020 sq mi (15,590 sq km), Sakhalin region, E Russia. They stretch c.
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Around 1600 (4 PM), the first ships of the task force, the 2nd Carrier Division (Soryu, Hiryu) and their escorting destroyers, slipped out of Saeki Wan, headed southeast out the Bungo Strait past Okino Shima Island, and then turned northeast toward Hitokappu Wan in the Kuriles.
00 Hardcover DS849 The two countries do not actually share a border, but out in the Pacific are four islands that both claim, called The Northern Territories in Japan, and the Southern Kuriles in Russia.
I was a Navy pilot, stationed near Seattle, where our squadron was getting ready to fly to Alaska and the western Aleutians, from whence we were to bomb Paramushiro, the big Japanese naval base in the Kuriles.
 
 
 
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