A Magnificent Fight: Marines in the Battle for Wake Island


Read by Aaron Bennett

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It is Monday, 8 December 1941. On Wake Island, a tiny sprung paper-clip in the Pacific between Hawaii and Guam, Marines of the 1st Defense Battalion are starting another day of the backbreaking war preparations that have gone on for weeks. Out in the triangular lagoon formed by the islets of Peale, Wake, and Wilkes, the huge silver Pan American Airways Philippine Clipper flying boat roars off the water bound for Guam. The trans-Pacific flight will not be completed. - Summary by Robert Cressman

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Chapter 1, Part 1 - A Magnificent Fight: Marines in the Battle for Wake Island 28:11 Read by Aaron Bennett
Chapter 1, Part 2 - Sidebars 6:57 Read by Aaron Bennett
Chapter 2 - ‘Humbled-by Sizeable Casualties’ 18:12 Read by Aaron Bennett
Chapter 3 - ‘Still No Help’ 28:35 Read by Aaron Bennett
Chapter 4 - ‘All Hands Have Behaved Splendidly’ 19:00 Read by Aaron Bennett
Chapter 5, Part 1 - ‘This Is As Far As We Go’ 16:51 Read by Aaron Bennett
Chapter 5, Part 2 - ‘This Is As Far As We Go’ 20:58 Read by Aaron Bennett
Chapter 6 - ‘A Difficult Thing To Do’ 17:59 Read by Aaron Bennett