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To: Rumplemeyer
It was built by Brown & Root, Raymond International and Morrison-Knudsen

Men from those companies were killed and captured by the Japanese on Wake Island. Morris Knudsen and Brown & Root played an enormous role in winning WW2.

5 posted on 06/03/2012 1:42:21 PM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: xkaydet65
The movie Wake Island was about the M-K people, Jim McCleary was Harry Morrison's nephew and one of the few survivors of the Japanese POW camp on the island. He went on to be the President of M-K, before Bill Agee destroyed it.
10 posted on 06/03/2012 4:13:48 PM PDT by Rumplemeyer (The GOP should stand its ground - and fix Bayonets)
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