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To: kms61

I've been trying to find a copy of this poster "The Defence of Wake Island" by Arbin Henning for years.

http://www.cv6.org/noumea/default.asp?uri=detail/nara-img-44pa1907

When I was a kid in the 60s in the NY area all the movies where we are losing were shown around Pearl Harbor day,
Bataan, They Were Expendable, Wake Island.

I used to have nightmares about them, especially the scene in Bataan where the Robert Walker character is firing at the Japs camoflaged as bushes with his machine gun. The fact that he dug his foxhole to be his grave was the creepiest.

Anyway, Wake Island was the only one that made the heroics trump the actual defeat. From a kid's perspective it was just like John Wayne's Alamo.


10 posted on 06/18/2005 5:12:08 AM PDT by billl
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To: billl
I've been trying to find a copy of this poster "The Defence of Wake Island" by Arbin Henning for years.

Fwiw, the National Archives have a copy. I'm not sure if reproductions are available.

Here's a link to page.

Defense of Wake Island

There's some contact info on the page.

12 posted on 06/18/2005 6:54:05 AM PDT by csvset
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