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To: Mariner

True. Could have also included Wake Island.


20 posted on 12/31/2019 1:06:29 PM PST by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

While Wake Island was lost it gave the japs their first black eye from us in the war. It took them two tries to take it.


49 posted on 12/31/2019 3:09:17 PM PST by pfflier
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To: artichokegrower

Wake Island has a singular distinction.

It is the only time is modern history that an amphibious assault was repelled by the defenders.


61 posted on 12/31/2019 4:08:30 PM PST by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual hemlock)
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