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Episode 257-The Fall of Wake Island
Episode 257-The Fall of Wake Island
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Length:
25 minutes
Released:
Jul 2, 2019
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Podcast episode
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The marines on Wake Island are holding out, due to discipline and Japanese tactical mistakes. Yet Maj. Devereux is unaware of this and thus brings to fighting to an end. Yet the Japanese atrocities are only just beginning, against the marine and civilian POWs. As for Adm. Frank Fletcher's task force to save Wake, that suffers too, from the equally timid Vice Adm. Pye.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Released:
Jul 2, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
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