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Wake Island: Directed by John Farrow. With Brian Donlevy, Macdonald Carey, Robert Preston, William Bendix. December, 1941. With no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island base.
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- Action, Drama, War
- John Farrow
- 1942-08-11
On 24 February 1942, aircraft from the carrier Enterprise attacked the Japanese garrison on Wake Island. U.S. forces bombed the island periodically from 1942 until Japan's surrender in 1945. On 24 July 1943, Consolidated B-24 Liberators led by Lieutenant Jesse Stay of the 42nd Squadron (11th Bombardment Group) of the U.S. Army Air ...
Wake Island is a 1942 American action drama war film directed by John Farrow, written by W. R. Burnett and Frank Butler, and starring Brian Donlevy, Robert Preston, Macdonald Carey, Albert Dekker, Barbara Britton, and William Bendix.
La batalla de la Isla Wake fue una batalla de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, entre Japón y Estados Unidos ocurrida desde el 8 al 23 de diciembre de 1941, en el recién abierto escenario de la Guerra del Pacífico oriental . Dicha batalla acaeció en la isla-atolón de Wake, situada en medio del Océano Pacífico .
Battle of Wake Island, (December 8–23, 1941), during World War II, battle for Wake Island, an atoll consisting of three coral islets (Wilkes, Peale, and Wake) in the central Pacific Ocean. During the battle a small force of U.S. Marines and civilian defenders fought elements of the Imperial.
- In January 1941 the United States began constructing military facilities on Wake Island for use as an advance defensive outpost. By December hundre...
- The Battle of Wake Island took place on Wake Island, an atoll in the central Pacific Ocean about 2,000 miles west of Hawaii and 600 miles north of...
- Although the Battle of Wake Island ended in a U.S. defeat, the Japanese navy suffered significant losses at the hands of a much smaller American fo...
- The Battle of Wake Island lasted 16 days, from December 8 to December 23, 1941.
- The Japanese won the Battle of Wake Island. They lost four ships, one submarine, and some 1,000 lives; just over 100 Americans and Guamanians died...
Wake became a potent American rallying point. It inspired Paramount Pictures to produce the first feature film of the war that showed American fighting men in combat. Released in late August 1942, Wake Island would boost both Marine recruiting and war bond sales.
A dramatic depiction by Artist Correspondent Arthur Beaumont of a lone Marine F4F Wildcat fighter taking on three Japanese biplanes over Wake Island, done for the War Department’s 1942 film, Wake Island. Although badly outnumbered, the Americans held their own during the invasion and gave the enemy a bloody nose.
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