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    Estevan Point Lighthouse is located on the headland of the same name in the Hesquiat Peninsula Provincial Park on the west coast of Vancouver Island, Canada...
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    of Yokota Minoru, fired 25–30 rounds of 5.5-inch shells at the Estevan Point lighthouse on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, but failed to hit its...
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  • Municipality of Estevan No. 5, rural municipality San Estevan, Belize, a town in Orange Walk District, Belize Estevan Point, a lighthouse in Vancouver Island...
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    whereupon "the air over Los Angeles erupted like a volcano." From this point on reports were hopelessly at variance. Probably much of the confusion came...
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    (12 July 2010). "A Look Back: Nazi agents picked Ponte Vedra as landing point in 1942". The Florida Times-Union. "Franklin D. Roosevelt: Proclamation...
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  • and is the location of Hesquiat Peninsula Provincial Park. The Estevan Point lighthouse is at the apex of the peninsula.` BC Names/GeoBC entry "Hesquiat...
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    congested part of the shipping routes in the South Atlantic and therefore the point at which a raider could do the most damage to enemy shipping. A Norwegian...
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    Canada Angler POW escape St. Lawrence Bell Island Estevan Point Lighthouse Bowmanville Kiebitz Point Maisonnette United States Machita incident Aleutian...
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    Lucia, U-161 torpedoed Sarniadoc and sank the United States Coast Guard lighthouse tender USCGC Acacia with gunfire. Five Italian submarines patrolled the...
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    until September 1942 when Japan's Aleutian strategy shifted. It was at this point that the Unangax were taken to Hokkaido, Japan, and placed in an internment...
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