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Contents
- A Magnificent Fight: Marines in the Battle for Wake Island
- Sidebar: Major James P S. Devereux
- Sidebar: Commander Winfield S. Cunningham
- Sidebar: Major Paul A. Putnam
- Sidebar: Defensive Mainstay: The M3 Antiaircraft Gun
- Sidebar: The Nells, Bettys, and Claudes of Japan
- Humbled-by Sizeable Casualties
- Sidebar: The Defense Battalion’s 5-Inch Guns
- Sidebar: Captain Hentry T. Elrod
- Still No Help
- Sidebar: Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher
- All Hands Have Behaved Splendidly
- This Is As Far As We Go
- A Difficult Thing To Do
- Sources
- About the Author
- About this series of pamphlets
- Transcriber’s Notes
A Magnificent
Fight:
Marines in the
Battle For
Wake Island
Marines inWorld War II
Commemorative Series
By Robert J. Cressman
In 1945, RAdm ShigematsuSakaibara, back to camera at right,surrenders his garrison to returningAmericans. (Department of Defense[USMC] Photo 133686)
Col Walter L. J. Bayler, reputedly“the last Marine off Wake” in December1941, is the first to set foot on theisland in 1945. (Department of Defense[USMC] Photo 133688)
A Magnificent Fight:
Marines in the Battle for Wake Island
by Robert J. Cressman
It is Monday, 8 December1941. On Wake Island,a ti
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