Sunday morning 7 December 1941 is a date that is printed in the collective American mind. It was the day the Japanese ...

On December 8, 1941, the US garrison on Wake Island awoke to news of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Japan's destruction of the US Pacific Fleet meant Wake Island was on its own against Japan's ...

Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was just a part of a large expansion campaign in the Pacific. Their forces invaded multiple ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This past Veterans Day, The Montana Standard published a feature that included a story on Pfc. Jasper Dawson of Butte, a prisoner of war all throughout World War II. Since his story was ...

"Uncommon courage was a common virtue": this was said of Marines on another island, Iwo Jima. Texas journalist Sloan's excellent research, interviewing and journalistic prose will have readers of this ...

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He played both football and baseball for Thomasville High School, but Henry Talmage Elrod, would one day find his opposition much greater than any he faced on the playing fields of south Georgia. Born ...

This documentary is a captivating account of the defense of Wake Island by a small contingent of United States Marines and civilian contractors. From December 8th until December 23rd, 1941 the ...

In November 1941, Major Caton takes command of the small Marine garrison on Wake Island. His tendency toward spit and polish upsets the men's tropical lassitude, but Pearl Harbor changes everything.