A Magnificent Fight: Marines in the Battle for Wake Island

by Robert Cressman

Transcriber’s note: Table of Contents added by Transcriber and placed into the Public Domain.

Contents

• [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-by Sizeable Casualties]
  
• [Sidebar: The Defense Battalion’s 5-Inch Guns]
  
• [Sidebar: Captain Hentry T. Elrod]
  
• [Still No Help]
  
• [Sidebar: Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher]
  
• [All Hands Have Behaved Splendidly]
  
• [This Is As Far As We Go]
  
• [A Difficult Thing To Do]
  
• [Sources]
  
• [About the Author]
  
• [About this series of pamphlets]
  
• [Transcriber’s Notes]

A Magnificent
Fight:
Marines in the
Battle For
Wake Island

Marines in World War II
Commemorative Series

By Robert J. Cressman

In 1945, RAdm Shigematsu Sakaibara, back to camera at right, surrenders his garrison to returning Americans. (Department of Defense [USMC] Photo 133686)

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