World War II
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-b...
Having received a report of Japanese destroyers standing toward Wake’s south shore (and well inside the range of the 5-inch batteries that had so vexed the enemy on 11 December)...
3. Part 3Later that same day, 26 _Chitose Air Group_ Nells bombed Wake Island. Returning aircrewmen claimed damage to a warehouse and an antiaircraft gun in the “western sector.” Antiair...
1. Part 1A 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: De...
4. Part 4As “Barney” Barninger observed, the flying boat’s arrival “set the island on end with scuttlebutt.” Most men surmised that the civilians would be evacuated. The scuttlebutt was...
2. Part 2As the 10th dawned, Marine Gunner McKinstry found himself with new duties, having received orders to proceed to Wilkes and report to Captain Wesley McC. Platt, commander of the...
6. Part 6Frank Jack Fletcher’s Task Force 14, meanwhile, was right on schedule, and was in fact further west than Pye knew. His ships fully fueled and ready for battle, Fletcher planned...