A Magnificent Fight: Marines in the Battle for Wake Island
Robert James Cressman and Robert J. Cressman
Leído por Aaron Bennett





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 (2 hr 36 min)
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Chapter 1, Part 1 - A Magnificent Fight: Marines in the Battle for Wake Island | 28:11 | Leído por Aaron Bennett |
Chapter 1, Part 2 - Sidebars | 6:57 | Leído por Aaron Bennett |
Chapter 2 - ‘Humbled-by Sizeable Casualties’ | 18:12 | Leído por Aaron Bennett |
Chapter 3 - ‘Still No Help’ | 28:35 | Leído por Aaron Bennett |
Chapter 4 - ‘All Hands Have Behaved Splendidly’ | 19:00 | Leído por Aaron Bennett |
Chapter 5, Part 1 - ‘This Is As Far As We Go’ | 16:51 | Leído por Aaron Bennett |
Chapter 5, Part 2 - ‘This Is As Far As We Go’ | 20:58 | Leído por Aaron Bennett |
Chapter 6 - ‘A Difficult Thing To Do’ | 17:59 | Leído por Aaron Bennett |