Stranded 2,500 Miles from Pearl Harbor - Wake Island - The Loneliest Battle of WW2
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Pictured: Japanese Patrol Boat No.32 and Patrol Boat No.33 beached and burning in attempt to land an amphibious invasion force on Wake Island in December of 1941.
The Battle of Wake Island is often referred to as the loneliest battle of World War II. On December 8, 1941, the attack on Pearl Harbor surprised American military forces in Hawaii an occupied much of America’s collective imagination. However, the attack on Pearl Harbor was only one of a collection of offensives the Japanese conducted on that day. Stranded nearly 2,500 miles away from Hawaii, halfway to Japan, a small assembly of Marines held back a fierce amphibious assault by Japanese forces as they awaited reinforcements. The frustrated Japanese Navy would have to call in a second invasion force while the US’s naval Task Force 14 raced to relieve the island...
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Was privileged while I was in the Navy to have stepped foot on Wake Island. I walked down to the rock that the people’s names were inscribed on. That along with going to Iwo Jima are two of the proudest moments of my career. Tony
❤
Defended with honor, skill, and true grit. The Defenders of Wake Island deserve to be remembered by every servicemember to follow in their footsteps
My dad was there my hero
I’ve been there. It was an amazing experience. Walking the airfield and thinking of what happened was heart wrenching.
We got to visit Wake in 1989. We were on a flight back to the US from Clark Air Base, Philippines on an Air Force C-141. The plane encountered a mechanical issues, so we had to land. We diverted to Wake. It took about 12 hours to get another plane there to pick us up. It was a solemn place. There were plaques marking places where people were killed. I'll never forget it. God bless the brave warriors that gave all at Wake.
I was there in 86’. I walked the beach imagining what the civilians and Marines were thinking back in 42’. Some of the guns and other historical items were still on the beaches. I’m sure a lot has changed since we were there. Hard to believe we were only 40 years from the end. Fuck I’m old.
The greatest Marine Corps battle ever and everytime I read or listen about the battle it brings tears to my eyes listening to the bravery of the Marines and Civilians
One shot is a lucky shot, but 3 shots is skills.
Well, the luck was in hitting the magazine, which is a small and well armored part of the ship
What does that mean 3 shots is 3shills
Charles Reid That is one confusing typo
@@Solnoric destroyers had no armor. That's why they were called "Tin Cans."
Your grammar is shocking
Wake Island... Oh the memories.
BF1942?
@@eyesofstatic9641 BF1942, BF Vietnam WW2 Mod, BF2, BF 2142, BF Heros, BF Online, BF3 and BF5.
Yeah!! That’s where I remember that from!
BF1943
I still play 1942 and Vietnam. Pretty big cult following
The Philippines wasn’t attacked until 8 hours after Pearl Harbor & Bataan didn’t fall until April 9, 1942, & Corregidor didn’t surrender until May 6, 1942. The last 2 occurred months after the fall of Wake Island.
And the japanese high command send reinforcement from china to finally crushed the stubborn resistance of the USAFFE in Bataan.
Fighter jet? Be nice if the marines did have p-80 jets instead of wildcats
one opps over the years- not bad
Oops
Would have been nice if the USAAF had made the P-59 usable in 1942, the U.S Could have had a Jet in the war by 1943
Well, they could’ve easily had starships too, three and a half centuries after the late 19th century..
P80 shooting star
The defenders of Wake gave them a hell of a butt whooping and great loss of face.
What happened to the Morrison Knudsen contractors after the Marines were sent off to China? Forced to finish the defensive positions as slave labor, perhaps? Then allowed to starve to death and thrown into a mass grave somewhere on the island yet to be discovered.
Marshall, they were used as labor then when there was no food for them or the Japanese defenders they "escaped and made a final stand with two captured rifles" all 98 remaining were killed.
@@gordonhamilton5576 Thank you Sir.
@@marshallness8874 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Wake_Island#War_crimes
Executed when invasion appeared imminent. One escaped and scrawled a testimonial in Coral rock. He was captured and personally beheaded by the Japanese commander. They tried to cover up the massacre but the officers' cover story fell apart under interrogation. Commander was hung for it.
@Johnny RoadTrain not entirely. They lost, but definitely made the bigger Japanese force suffer greatly for a small blot of land
Cap off to the USMC! 🇺🇸 Damn shame Elrod and those boys were not backed up, that was bad! ☹️😔
I can't agree more... Supply planes from Pearl Harbor could have gotten there before the 2 air craft carrier fleet of Japan
@@richardschaeffer3204 Not like they just got bombed or anything bruh
The Marines had a great exhibit at Quanico, VA. when the museum was right next to OCS barracks. I took my son there back about 30 years ago, three quonset huts housed the museum and they proudly showcased the struggle the Marines had on Wake. Now I think they have built a "proper" museum facility, but I wish they still had the huts.
>referring to an aircraft as an F4F when showing a RATO test on an F6F on screen
>calling them fighter jets
Dark docs, are you drunk bro?
If so, it's ok. So am I
He also said wake island was neglected for 3 and a half CENTURIES instead of decades lol
Hell, he shows an SBD while talking about the F4F
Still drunk?
I am drunk... I didn't notice lol
"the island was all but neglected for 3 and a 1/2 centuries"
I don't think that's accurate.
Neglect makes time pass very, very slowly!
There's at least 5 glaring fuckups like that in this video. My favourite one is "from satellite imagery the island looked like....." In 1942 FFS
@@zipfish Also they had fighter jets, apparently. I'm surprised they didn't kill more enemy planes....
Sean_B Please give him a break...he prob meant 3 and a half decades.
Yeah, 'fighter jets'...this guy need a copy reviewer. Lol
However, the reporting of relevant facts is detailed, fascinating and meaningful for some of us.
My Uncle was held as a Japanese POW...fill in the rest.
I replayed that part like three times.....what?
8:09 true battlefield player
He then swam into the ocean and commandeered a landing watercraft; spawn camping the zeroes before they could takeoff
@@alvinbratz2423 hahahahaha !!!
I can understand that it isn't easy to find fitting footage, but using Heinkel HE111's is down right silly.
What about the clip of British troops fighting Rommel in the dessert war.
They were desperate, they used whatever they had in hand.
Yes I noticed that at the beginning too lol they must think nobody knows their aircraft
At first, I thought it was a figment of the imagination.
Mark Felton has no problem getting good footage.
Fun Fact: despite being only 6 years long, over 98% of all events in human history took place during WWII. Source: Dark Docs.
How did 98% of world events happened in WW2 ? please explain.
@@viperdynamite5830 he meant major events, wars, attacks, and such incidents
Also a highly exaggerated fact
@@viperdynamite5830 he is having fun saying that because this is a visual medium the first largely video covered war and inavative plans, attacks, and last ditch assualts hence an overwhelming amount of this channels videos covering the WW2
@@viperdynamite5830 @HITESH ADHIKARI
*WHOOOOOOSH*
Also, WWII is pretty morally black and white for the victors. Like Lord of The Rings, you don’t need to bother wasting any time explaining the complexities of the bad guys.
These rapid fire documentaries are potentially great snippets of history but, they are getting painful to listen to. 'Neglected for three centuries after US Ceremonies in 1890'...'First pilot to destroy a warship from a "fighter jet"...'two task force's prepared to depart Wake Island'... "Common man!" get it together.
You nailed it, incorect info and the rapid fire delivery only adds to the problem
ejdiii333
I mean, we get what we “pay for”
10 minute rapid fire infotainment. Nice to check out but not necessarily something you’d want to cite as a source.
The theme/mood makes it sound like a hidden history for the layperson who really doesn’t know about this stuff.
@@uss_04 5
It's not meant to be a specialized history piece. Whoever runs Dark Docs and its affiliated channels runs through many different subjects spanning the better part of a century. If you'd like more focused documentaries, there are more focused channels, such as Drachinifel or Mark Felton or Lindybeige
Satellite images as well. I get some mistakes, but man, that shouldn't make it passed one proof read
Elrod: First to sink an enemy warship with aircraft bombs from a fighter jet. What.
Small caliber bombs, fighters fire explosive shells or atleast now they do. So I assume they did back then too
Not a jet stupid. There were no operational fighter jets in 1941.
3:09 Centuries?? They’re living in 2249?
Lane Hale this is Star Trek, homey
I'm sure they meant 3 and a half decades
There’s been quite a few mistakes like that. I’d rather have better, more quality videos than a video every- or every-other day.
Yeah this channel isn't known for quality, but quantity.
Oh and ads. They're known for having lots of ads.
"From satellite imagery..."
Wait, what year was this?
Hes describing how the atoll looks. From google maps. A odd line to say. Yes. But not reason for nitpicking.
Doom - I caught that too & also found it odd.
@@fernandomarques5166 Looked, not looks. He phrased it in the context of the time, ("From satellite imagery, Wake Island seemed like nothing more than a broken wishbone") so I stand by pointing it out.
doom-generation 1941
doom-generation 1941
3:12 should say 3.5 decades
It says centuries
Random Rc And Things and?
Its every video with these guys! I mean the topics are interesting but it blows my mind that no one is checking this stuff before they release it
Yes, I noticed that too. He needs to proof his scripts more closely.
With surprise, I saw your comment just after placing mine, above. While we might wonder at the century-vs-decade error, the producer apparently has no editorial assistant, and is a one-man shop, focused entirely on the volume of videos he can post under Dark Docs. Most of the Dark Doc titles are interesting enough, if only he could avoid errors of oversight. All that would require is to review his own script after 24 hours-- with editing, speed kills.
Didn’t mention even once the heroic action of transport gunner Wanocki safeguarding the wristwatch of Marine Dane Coolidge
a man, whom, he'd never met....
That was Vietnam.
@@WILLNOTCOMPLY72 thr story goes through both world wars....great grandpa, to grandpa, to father, to butch....WW1, WW2 at Wake Island, Vietnam Hanoi Hilton.
DNT TRD ON ME no, that was his father. Wanocki was Wake Island
8:01 - The United States did not posses any "fighter jets" at the time of the Battle of Wake Island. The U.S. began testing their first jet prototype on October 1, 1942. The P-80 was the first operational jet fighter and was introduced in late 1944, but this was still a testing phase, and no P-80 saw combat during WWII.
the p- 80 did see combat in 1950. the first jet kill!
My Father (Colonel Robert Ulmer, Ret USAF) a young Army AirCorps Lieutenant was an intelligence officer that flew in B-24Rs out of Hickam Field Hawaii.Wake was strategic but also a long ways from Hawaii. He convinced the brass to fly four B-24R aircraft from Hawaii to Wake Island and snap photos of the Japanese garrison that now controlled the island. The plan was to fly in a criss-cross pattern so the Japanese didn't know where they came from. However...there was a problem...fuel calculations indicated that the recon planes could not make it back to Hawaii as they would be several hundred miles short. A volunteer mission was devised that had some ships lined up so that when they had to ditch they could be picked up.
My Father was put in charge of the mission and had Captains and Majors working for him. They stripped off everything unnecessary on the plane. They made the flight and snapped the photos. The cameras minus the film were dumped out along with anything else they could find to remove. They mostly came back on two engines and were expecting to ditch in the sea. However, they made it back to Hickam and two of the aircraft couldn't even make it to the taxiway without running out of fuel!! At the time it was the longest flight in the world.
The photos were analyzed and Japanese positions were known. However, rather than invade the island, the brass decided to jus quarantine Wake rather than invade it. Island hopping was just loosing too many men, mostly Marines throughout the Pacific Theatre. Unfortunately any Americans not sent to prison camps were slowly worked to death building Japanese fortifications.
Thank you for that-- I had wondered what rationale had kept Task Force 11 from relieving Wake, particularly after the force had refueled for the mission. Wake was not intended to be another Alamo, but to be relieved by friendly forces as they counterattacked the invaders.
These old clips are always outstanding to see
at 8:00 "He became the first fighter pilot to sink a battleship using a fighter jet" ?1?1?1?1?
It was prop plane. NOT a jet
It is like someone is using google translate from another Language!
Or they have no idea of what they are talking about!
A Military Historian on staff would be of great help to edit this crap!
@@sealy3 Reading around the margins, many other comments suggest the new RUclips emphasis is on payment for quantity, not quality. Viewer response still counts, but total page views (especially click-throughs) count a lot more. RUclips creators are under mounting, anti-creative pressure, which explains why so many of them move to syndicated formats like Patreon.
@Ari GSD but they were using a "F4F wild cat prop plane
not a F4F wild cat Jet plane
but yes there are lots of planes with jet engines from the WW2 era
@Ari GSD
Really? Millions? During WWII?
@@g-ants7547
Actually there were few actual jets and only in combat late in the war. There weren't enough to make a difference.
Great documentaires guys, but seriously, tone down the ad frequency, this is ludicrous
AD Blockers do work on RUclips. If you want to whitelist certain RUclips channels, you can with the channel homepage URL. Getting RUclips Premium is also recommended, the time saved by not watching ads is worth it to me.
I was gonna say the same thing but “support your youtubers blah blah blah” the amount of ads seemed weird for a vid a lil over 10 mins long.
Matt Fields maybe hes like me and using mobile. At home i use it though. I swear yt knows and makes up for it
LowDefinition I know that the Luna VPN works for iOS devices, but they sell your activity to advertisers. That’s why I just pay RUclips for premium. Channels get mor money per view from premium vs Ads too.
Hasn't youtube instituted automatic ads now? Unless you manually disable them, there will be a bunch of ads placed on any and every video, even older ones, longer than 8 minutes.
My grandfather was one of the men in vf-111 and was from what he told me was more than disgusted with his commanders for the order to leave the island without evacuating his fellow countrymen and his friend was one of the guys still on the ground when the island surrended to the japanese
While I enjoy watching these video's, there are always WTF's like an He111 bombing Pearl Harbor, Malya instead of Malaya & sinking a ship with a fighter "jet"!
I was going to mention the Maliya (it sounded like that to me) rather than Malaya.
I second guessed myself on the “Malya” part. Thought maybe I’m just retarded. Glad to know that might not be the case
@Chris_Wooden_Eye everyone knows the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor.
"The island was neglected for 3 and a half centuries..." After being claimed by the United States... *decades kind of a big swing and miss there. You know, cuz America won't be 3 and a half centuries old for about a hundred and 6 years.
Neglected by the Spanish who originally discovered it several centuries ago
🤓. Maybe he was using them 1619 “Reefer- Rancids” Uh , I mean references 🥸😜😜😜😜
No kidding, I'm thinking more poor sentences in aid of supporting their argument. Could have been worded better but at the end of the day, hats off to the people who produce these uploads.
Sept 1965 while returning back to USA from Thailand on a 727 MATS plane we made a fuel stop on Wake Island. was to be discharged in a few days. did not think about the history of Wake during WW2 and all the battles fought there. this video was great because i now realize i have walked on ground brave meen fought and died for.a 727 airplane landing there and taking off was a wild ride.
3:06 umm that math does not check out lol it still hasn’t been 3 and half centuries since then.
I caught that, too, and just thought maybe I was retarded.
I agree, the math does not add up. 1899? Three and a half centuries? 2149 is three and a half centuries. Brother, it’s only 2020. NO WAY 🙅🏻♂️ could it be “3 1/2 centuries.”
Matthew Jay I think he meant to say 3 and half decades because that would be the right time frame.
Just wanted to say thank you very much for making this. My grandfather was on this island and great to see his story being told to people
What was his name?
I knew a man named Ralph Holowinski who was on wake island and was captured. Great man. Very interesting story
Sadly, we could not risk loosing any carriers at that point in the war. RIP Wake Island Hero's! Thank you DD!
"What do you think this is, a ball game?" Epic
Good video. But a bit light on the tactical details of the final fight ashore, which is interesting. Also wish you would have been specific on how many of the Marines were executed aboard ship heading to Japan as POWS, and how the civilian contractors were executed prior to the US retaking Wake...made it sound like they just died from maltreatment and malnourishment.
Where did you find these details?
I sure do like these videos but I binge watch them, There’s never enough.
Surprised you didn't include the last communication received from Wake:
"Enemy on island. Issue in doubt."
Famous words that some how I knew you would forget. You should climb back into your 1942 fighter jet and go to the library for some good old fashioned research.
If you knew he would forgot how could you be surprised?
This was an interesting story that would’ve been made more enjoyable had someone taken the time to proofread the script.
Your narration, as Always, is Superb... you have this Very distinguished voice and inflection thereof that gains you a Cut above All others. It is enjoyable just to listen to you.
A side note: this is one of the three levels in the "Battlefield 43" on line game that is still an Amazing game to play, if it's still available as I have Not been able to have the pleasure of doing so for almost 5 years now ; (
I have been to Wake Island and stood at the "98 Rock," and it will chill you to the bone.
Thank you Grand Dad, Infantryman in the European Theater and his brother Claude Naval Pilot in the Pacific. My Grandfather J.T. Kincannon survived D-Day and later raised a family her in VA and even later he made time to raise me. I still recount his great WWII stories to my children, when they'll listen. His brother Claude Kincannon was shot down and Bailed out near Japan (Okinawa I think but I cannotbe sure). He was captured by the Japanese and never came home. Later, during the war trials his fate was disclosed. Uncle Claude had been summarily beheaded upon capture which was not uncommon for the unfortunate aviators who found themselves in enemy hands in the Pacific theater.
Growing up with my grandfather I was told all his war stories countless times but the story of his brother, he shared only once.
God rest you grandfather and thank you. I miss you.
My condolences to your family. Thank you for sharing.
"none of those boys as any illusion that they were getting off that island alive...."
"....he died of dysentery, he gimme da watch..."
"He be damned any greasy slopes gonna put their dirty yellow hand on his boys birthright!"
Benjamin Gamache ^^^^^this
@@johnneill5960say what?
The ads are getting on the heavy side for a video barely over ten minutes. Why not just do an ad or two and introduce a patreon subscription option?
get a youtube adblocker extension for your browser. I NEVER see ads...
Firefox w/adblockerplus, brave browser.
Semper Fi. A great illustration of a hard rule of war: Never be out-gunned. I hope this generation learns this lesson gained at such great cost in the past....
According to the narrative, Wake was not outgunned. Instead, the outpost was part of a two-step strategy-- defend the island with enough troops to prevent immediate invasion, and dispatch US forces to attack the invader, relieving Wake's defenders. As it turned out, the US Navy decided not to follow through on its plan to relieve Wake, and the island fell to the Japanese.
My father was a Machinist Mate on a destroyer that was in the yards at Hunter's Point, I believe. Otherwise he would have been moored in Pearl Harbor on the morning of the 7th. He had joined in 1937 and stayed 20 years.
The Navy was ushering in the new senior enlisted rates of senior chief and master chief when Dad was retiring and they offered to hand him senior chief if he stayed 2 more years and he declined. I was born 2 years later to an Old Salt Destroyerman and woman who was an aviation machinist mate WAVE in WW2. I served many years in the Navy helping to keep Naval Aviation's radios and Radars working and I don't regret any of it. It was good for me.
#SemperFortis
Landed there in 1958 while on route to Japan from Travis AFB. . Prop plane so needed refueling. Very special.
You gave an interesting talk with interesting footage (There are very few pictures or anything of Wake before the war.) and all people here can do is discuss "jets" and "3.5 centuries." :/
Well, I appreciated it.
William Gordon Purvis, aged 25, died in the first attack on 8 December 1941 while manning a machine gun. After the war, his remains were moved to Honolulu Memorial and placed in a mass grave.
Just read the some of the comments. Yes there are glitches but the sentiment of the event is very well portrayed. The world could do with a movie about this juncture in war about now.
To going from busting ass hard work - to mind numbing boredom - to being surrounded and incessantly attacked by Japanese, taken over, & then being abandoned, abused, & imprisoned. Heros, ALL.
@7:00 lucky shots? Pfft. You greatly underestimate Marines.
I did multiple TDYs 1996-2001 to Wake interesting place. lots of interesting artifacts still to be found. But the most moving was the 98 memorial Rock too some of the contractors and Marines executed by MG fire after the original POW contingent were moved off island, It was carved by a lone escapee of the 98 mascaraed pretty moving stuff.
An old man I used to work with called his junk hammerin Hank
Did he put his junk in your trunk? 😲
My Dad just missed going to Wake Island as a civilian contractor in 1941. He was supposed to go and missed his ship due to a surgical procedure gone bad when the surgeon accidently punctured his lung. His two buddies went and were killed by the Japanese after the capture of the Island. Dad later worked for Du Point at Hanford , the so called the Manhattan District...
I had a great uncle stationed on the island when Japan invaded. He was a POW for the whole war.
I worked on Wake Island back in 2014. Many of the bunkers built by slave labor for the Japanese after the invasion are still there to this day, along with 98 rock, which has an incredible story behind it
I lived on Kwajalein, Marshall Island for several years, 88-95. Been to Wake a couple times with the dive club. Also stood on the deck of the USS Saratoga 90ft beneath the waves of Bikini Lagoon.
They're first mistake was thinking Marines would go quietly lmao.
It’s tragic how little people know of the sacrifice at wake. The Alamo of the pacific.
"The japanese expected minimal resistance"
Proving that they had not yet figured out what Marines are yet.
Wake Island is definitely not forgotten among Battlefield players. Especially 1942
Criminal what FDR and the brass did to the Wake Island defenders
Always so many tears leading right up to the end of these documentaries, death is death, no matter what country you’re from, always sad
Learned this stuff in Marine Corp Boot Camp history classes.
3:13 If Wake was claimed by the US in 1899 how did they neglect it for the next 3-1/2 centuries (think you meant decades). 8:05 Wow, how about those F4F Wildcat fighter 'jets'?
You forgot about the satellite imagery lol
To everyone moaning about the satellite comment At no point did he say they had satellites he was just commenting on the shape of the island from his point of view
I've been to Wake Island. 5 x 7 miles. Hats off to those tough men that served there. 👍
And from the treatment of the of the civilian construction worker the Great's naval Force that the world today has never know was born .
Dec 28 1941 .Rear Admiral Ben Moreell the King Bee along with his plan wrote the five road's to victory.
U .S Navy Seabee's ,We Build We Fight. any place anytime anywhere. Can Do.
The difficult we do immediately,
the impossible takes a while longer.
Miracles by appointment only.
The music is really awesome. Especially around the middle onward
This story said at Wake Island on December 7th as the were finishing early morning chow, they received news that Pearl Harbor had been attacked. That's not possible, because that was almost 24 hours before the attack even took place. It occurred 5:55am December 8th on Wake Island time.
I've been to Wake Island four times during my Marine Corps career. There was still a lost of history there. The gun emplacements and pill boxes still existed on Wilkes and Peale Islands in the late 1980, though I don't know what was lost in the hurricanes that followed. Oddly enough, the second to the last unit I worked for was VMA-211, formerly VMF-211.
11:23 "The Japanese interred the remaining Marines as POWs". Wot, you mean they were buried alive?
Not 1 comment about inaccuracies has made an info video on anything
The best account of combat I have ever read was “Given up for dead” by Bill Sloan. It’s about Wale Island
Clearly, the Japanese hadn't fought the Marines, expecting a swift surrender.
2:34 Damn! I didn't know we had satellites in WW2!
Best doco I've seen on Guam island during WW2.
Wake displayed a fighting spirit that help carry the men of the Pacific through the war
Besides Guam, Midway, Pearl, Okinawa and Iwo Jima, Wake island may become a potential flashpoint of future military conflict between USA and the PRC.
I am quite amazed by your narrations. 🙏🏼
Damn those marines were hardcore
Have a good day boys and girls
Nah I'm good
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@Wickity Wack poor attempt at critique of modern day culture.
Wickity Wack Thanks mate
If you havent read some of the books, this was a great summary butthe book adds some more information that is just astounding.
Seriously love the narrator, he’s all business and serious I do like listening to ya bud.
I've been there.. flew from. Kadena to Hickam via Wake on a USAF C-141. I bought a coffee cup that said "Wake Island, where Americas day really begins".
A very sad day for all.
8:04 fighter jet??
GOD BLESS YOU SGT. HENERY BELL! AND ALL AMERICAN PATRIOTS AND ALIES AND AMERICANS.
PAST AND PRESENT!
THANK ALL OF YOU!
GOD BLESS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 🙏🏻🇺🇸
Wake Island Alamo of the Pacific
Correction. Milne bay PNG , Australian troop defend sea landing . Just around time the Australian troop turns around a Japanese land attack over the Owen Stanley ranges in PNG. These and one more ,the Coral sea battle
Disappointed how we are led to believe we never leave a man behind. Soldiers die, that's what we do.... Leaders should have to serve time in the military b4 they lead young men to their deaths. This is an excellent story we need to remember. Thank you as always, I've never heard this b4. God Bless our finest of warriors, and those who lead without morals will answer to God if there is any justice....
We leave plenty of people behind. In some cases our own and in some cases our Allies.
Contrary to what the Marines always boast "WE NEVER LEAVE OUR DEAD" unfortunately is not true, they have left their dead, the Makin island raid in 1942 they left 9 live and 18 dead one's on that island.
Those guys there... serious badassery!
Task Force 14 (Saratoga) under Fletcher was the relief TF not TF 11 (Lexington). TF 11 was on a diversionary run at the tine.
After 1899 it lay neglected for
3 1/2 centuries.
Time warp
Great movie! thank you very much to the marines and civilians who were there and all other military
Read about the Battle of Wake Island "Given Up For Dead" by Bill Sloan. It's a good read about the US Marines and civilian contractors putting up a valiant fight against overwhelming odds. These guys made Americans proud in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor. In April 1942 after Bataan had surrendered to the Japanese , The Doolittle Raiders bombed Tokyo and other Japanese cities. While this did minimal damage to Japan , it made Americans proud and people were resolved to roll up their sleeves and work hard to defeat the empire of Japan. "Where do we find such men?" Frederick March said this in the 1954 movie The Bridges at Toko-Ri. Hats off to these gallant men! 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸
Wake island held out for almost three weeks, the US press called it the Alamo of the Pacific, also the relief force was less than 24 hours from the island when told to return to base.