I saw it. Very good. I was surprised that they found five survivors who were in good enough health to travel...extrapolating from the ages of the guys and when they enlisted, I surmised that it was filmed in 2002 or thereabouts. There was a minor historical nitpick or two, but nothing worth metioning. Well done overall.
The saga of Bill Taylor, the civilian construction worker who escaped and made his way across China, is worth a movie itself. I googled his name and there's very little about him. Somebody needs to write his story.
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.