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A Magnificent Fight: Marines in the Battle for Wake Island by Robert J. Cressman (1950 - )
Genre(s): War & Military

Read by: Aaron Bennett in English

Chapters:
00:00:00 - 01 - Chapter 1, Part 1 - A Magnificent Fight: Marines in the Battle for Wake Island
00:28:11 - 02 - Chapter 1, Part 2 - Sidebars
00:35:09 - 03 - Chapter 2 - ‘Humbled-by Sizeable Casualties'
00:53:22 - 04 - Chapter 3 - ‘Still No Help'
01:21:58 - 05 - Chapter 4 - ‘All Hands Have Behaved Splendidly'
01:41:00 - 06 - Chapter 5, Part 1 - ‘This Is As Far As We Go'
01:57:51 - 07 - Chapter 5, Part 2 - ‘This Is As Far As We Go'
02:18:49 - 08 - Chapter 6 - ‘A Difficult Thing To Do'

It is Monday, 8 December 1941. On Wake Island, a tiny sprung paper-clip in the Pacific between Hawaii and Guam, Marines of the 1st Defense Battalion are starting another day of the backbreaking war preparations that have gone on for weeks. Out in the triangular lagoon formed by the islets of Peale, Wake, and Wilkes, the huge silver Pan American Airways Philippine Clipper flying boat roars off the water bound for Guam. The trans-Pacific flight will not be completed. - Summary by Robert Cressman

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