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Attack on Wake Island - December 8, 1941
While Pearl Harbor burned on December 7th, a small garrison of Marines, sailors, and civilian workers on Wake Island—a tiny coral atoll in the Pacific—braced for their own trial by fire.
On December 8, 1941 (December 7th Hawaii time, across the International Date Line), 36 Japanese bombers from the Marshall Islands struck Wake Island just hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The raid caught the island during lunchtime, destroying 8 of the 12 F4F Wildcat fighters on the ground and killing 23 personnel.
The Defenders:
449 Marines under Major James Devereux
68 Navy personnel
1,146 civilian construction workers
4 remaining operational aircraft
What followed was a defiant 15-day siege. On December 11th, Wake's defenders achieved the remarkable: they became the first Allied force to repel a Japanese amphibious assault, sinking two destroyers and damaging several other vessels with their coastal guns and the last operational Wildcats.
The garrison held out until December 23rd, when overwhelming Japanese forces finally captured the island. The defenders' courage bought precious time for the U.S. to regroup and earned Wake Island a place in Marine Corps legend.
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