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Paramushir
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Paramushir 

an island in the northern part of the Greater Kuril Chain, in Sakhalin Oblast, RSFSR. It is separated from neighboring islands by the straits of Alaid, Luzhina, and the Second and Fourth Kurils. It has an area of 2,042 sq km and is 100 km long and about 20 km wide. The Vernadskii and Karpinskii mountain ranges consist of volcanic chains of which the following are active: Ebeko, Chikurachki (1,816 m), Fussa, and Karpinskii. The mountain slopes are covered with a Krummholz of cedar and alder and a heath of Ledum and alder bushes. There are sea meadows on the coastal terraces and high-altitude grasses in the valleys. The city of Severo-Kuril’sk is located on the northeastern part of the island.
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According to author Ralph Wetterhahn, the Lockheed Ventura carried out a strike on Paramushiro and Shimushu Islands and then attempted to divert to a Soviet airfield in Kamchatka, after its engine overheated.
The Last Flight of Bomber 31: Harrowing Tales of American and ... by Van Nederveen, Gilles / Air & Space Power Journal
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.
How the death of FDR hit one young Navy officer by Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
 
 
 
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