[Atomic Vomit]

"hell that was the war cry was it not?-"remember Wake Island!" "

Pearl Harbor, remember Pearl Harbor. Sheesh.

Very little was lost and was hardly worth fighting for on that tiny island 2000 miles from reinforcement.

We did little to assist the defenders. They were on their own from the start (12/8/41) to finish (12/23/41) 15 days later.

The defenders were heroic but what was lost was nothing in the larger war.

We didn't even bother to take Wake back. The war ended with the Japanese still in possession.

AV

[dcrider182]

that was the first "loss" of the war.. the japs took it. sent most of the defenders, both military and contracted civilians, on a death march. lined most of them up and shot them. The History channel did a GREAT documentary about wake island..

~D