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Although The Siege Of Wake Island Was Not One Of World War Ii's Biggest Campaigns, It Had A Profound Psychological Effect On The Course Of That Struggle. This Was The Battle That First Raised American Spirits In The Dark Weeks Immediately Following Pearl Harbor. For Sixteen Suspenseful Days, 449 U.s. Marines, Assisted By A Handful Of Sailors And Soldiers And A Few Hundred Civilian Construction Workers, Withstood Repeated Attacks By Numerically Superior Japanese Forces. Although Wake Finally Fell On 23 December 1941, Its Garrison Made The Japanese Pay An Embarrassingly High Price For A Tiny Coral Outpost. Wake Island Survivors Who Contributed To This Book -- Pt. I. The Place. I. An Epic That Should Give Every American Hope: The Birth Of The Wake Island Legend. Ii. The Most Isolated Place In The World: Wake's Geography And Climate. Iii. Wake Island Is Stirred To Life: The Atoll's Early History, 1568-1937. Iv. We Plan To Use Wake As A Base: The U.s. Navy And Wake Island, 1935-1939. V. Heigh-ho, Heigh-ho, It's Out To Wake We Go: Congress Decides Wake's Future, 1939-1940 -- Pt. Ii. The Defenders. Vi. Pioneer Party: The Contractors Arrive, January 1941. Vii. The Work Is Being Completed I

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Author

Urwin, Gregory J. W., 1955-

Publisher

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780803245556

Category

history

Subjects

History, Humanities

Rating

4.9 / 5 (27 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14