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| Sailors of carrier Zuikaku winching up the anchor on the quarter-deck after leaving Hitokappu Bay, Etorofu, Hokkaido Prefecture Japan (now controlled by Russia as Itrup of Sakhalin Oblast) in the Kurile Islands, 26 Nov 1941; she was en route to attack Pearl Harbor | Carrier Soryu in Hitokappu Bay, Etorofu, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan (now Kasatka Bay, Iturup, Sakhalin Oblast, Russia), early Dec 1941 | US Marine Captain J. R. Hester (back row, 4th from left) and other American prisoners of war, Hokkaido, Japan, circa 1943 | Nachi, Heian Maru, and Teiyo Maru at Paramushiru, Kurile Islands, May 1943 |
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| American captives at Hakodate Branch Camp No. 3 in Hokkaido, Japan waving at a circling US aircraft, 1945 | American captives at Hakodate Branch Camp No. 3, Hokkaido, Japan, 1945 | Former captives raising a US flag at Hakodate Branch Camp No. 3, Hokkaido, Japan, 1945 |
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