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Across the North Seas Aboard a Flight to Paramushiru
Lieut Leigh Wade recalls the perilous Arctic leg of a world flight from Seattle to Hitokappa, describing how storms, heavy sea, and literature wreckage aboard the destroyer turned into a surreal encounter with Japanese islands, volcanoes, schoolchildren, and the hairy tribe of Yetorofu.
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Paramushiry
Alaska
Siberia
Lieut Leigh Wade
Bering Sea
Aleutian Islands
Pacific Ocean
Paramushiru
Robert Service
Mark Twain
Harry Franck
Tevi Cobb
Jack
Hank
Boston
New Orleans
Hitokappa
Seattle
Alaskan
Japan
Cuba
Ford
Yetorofu
Shimu- Shiru
Uruppu
Sea of Okhotsk
Kurile
Wa Lake
Hitekappa Bay
Yetorofta Bay
Kashiwabara Bay
Kurile Islands
Alnon
Kusan
Ible
Wes
Hitakappu
Mysary
Arctic
Lotugeatere
Erik Nelson
Chignik
Chicago Tribune
McClure