EDITOR’S NOTE: This past Veterans Day, The Montana Standard published a feature that included a story on Pfc. Jasper Dawson of Butte, a prisoner of war all throughout World War II. Since his story was ...
"November 1983"--T.p. verso. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries&uri=full=3100001~!283301~!0#focus ...
"Uncommon courage was a common virtue": this was said of Marines on another island, Iwo Jima. Texas journalist Sloan's excellent research, interviewing and journalistic prose will have readers of this ...
Wiley Tipton was a 22-year-old Marine stationed on Wake Island in 1941 when the Japanese bombing runs began just hours after the Dec. 7 attacks on Pearl Harbor. The bombings continued daily until the ...
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Wake Island 1941: Outnumbered But Not Defeated
Outnumbered and outgunned, they defended Wake Island with unmatched courage! The untold story of WWII’s forgotten battle! 'Threat to Australia': Russian and Indonesian relationship increases Hit new ...
Today in U.S. Naval History - December 11 1941 - Contract establishes the Naval Salvage Service. 1941 - Wake Island Garrison under Commander Winfield Cunningham repulses Japanese invasion force. 1954 ...
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