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The Battle of Wake Island was a battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II, fought on Wake Island. The assault began simultaneously with the attack on Pearl Harbor naval and air bases in Hawaii on the morning of 8 December 1941 (7 December in Hawaii), and ended on 23 December, with the surrender of American forces to the Empire ...
- 8–23 December 1941
- Wake Island, U.S. territory
- First attempt: American victory, Second attempt: Japanese victory
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...
The Battle of Wake Island: Nation’s Morale Lifted in 1941. The valiant defense of Wake Island by US Marines, sailors, soldiers, and civilians became a potent rallying point for Americans in the dark days after Pearl Harbor. December 23, 2020.
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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 .
- 8 - 23 de diciembre de 1941
- Isla Wake
Wake Island: Japan’s First Setback. The battle for a lonely outpost in the Pacific became a supreme test of wills between the island’s American defenders and the overconfident Japanese invaders. This article appears in: Spring 2021.
4 de ago. de 2019 · Updated on August 04, 2019. The Battle of Wake Island was fought from December 8-23, 1941, during the opening days of World War II (1939-1945). A tiny atoll in the central Pacific Ocean, Wake Island was annexed by the United States in 1899.
by John Wukovits. In mid-December 1941, during the thick of the Battle of Wake Island, the 400 U.S. Marines who called the island outpost home stood a lonely sentinel in the watery Central Pacific wilderness, like a cavalry fort in an oceanic version of the Western frontier.
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