Project Hula

<p>Project Hula was a secret program during <a href="/facts/World_War_II/2efV5L1U">World War II</a> in which the <a href="/facts/United_States/P0sCdLe5">United States</a> transferred naval vessels to the <a href="/facts/Soviet_Union/m7wWsPto">Soviet Union</a> in anticipation of the Soviets eventually joining the <a href="/facts/Pacific_War/yNu6op98">war against Japan</a>, specifically in preparation for planned Soviet invasions of southern <a href="/facts/Sakhalin/oWSuMNl8">Sakhalin</a> and the <a href="/facts/Kuril_Islands/HBRsFdgN">Kuril Islands</a>. Based at <a href="/facts/Cold_Bay%2c_Alaska/rNCv6Myk">Cold Bay</a> in the <a href="/facts/Territory_of_Alaska/Ifpa5t7W">Territory of Alaska</a>, the project was active during the spring and summer of 1945. It was the largest and most ambitious transfer program of World War II, it included 149 ships delivered (of 180 expected, returned until 1955) and 12,000 personnel trained between 16 April and 4 September 1945 (well after the armistice of 15 August and the surrender of Japan on 2 September) and the US-handed then-Soviet ships took part in the last war operations of 5 September in <a href="/facts/Manchukuo/EFnnLsde">Manchukuo</a>, northern <a href="/facts/Korea/cj2kDBzc">Korea</a>, the Japanese south of <a href="/facts/Sakhalin/oWSuMNl8">Sakhalin Island</a>, and the <a href="/facts/Kuril_Islands/HBRsFdgN">Kuril Islands</a>.
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Project Hula