A Magnificent Fight: Marines in the Battle for Wake Island
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
Genre(s): War & Military
Language: English
| Section | Chapter | Reader | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Play 01 | Chapter 1, Part 1 - A Magnificent Fight: Marines in the Battle for Wake Island | Aaron Bennett |
00:28:11 |
| Play 02 | Chapter 1, Part 2 - Sidebars | Aaron Bennett |
00:06:57 |
| Play 03 | Chapter 2 - ‘Humbled-by Sizeable Casualties’ | Aaron Bennett |
00:18:12 |
| Play 04 | Chapter 3 - ‘Still No Help’ | Aaron Bennett |
00:28:35 |
| Play 05 | Chapter 4 - ‘All Hands Have Behaved Splendidly’ | Aaron Bennett |
00:19:00 |
| Play 06 | Chapter 5, Part 1 - ‘This Is As Far As We Go’ | Aaron Bennett |
00:16:51 |
| Play 07 | Chapter 5, Part 2 - ‘This Is As Far As We Go’ | Aaron Bennett |
00:20:58 |
| Play 08 | Chapter 6 - ‘A Difficult Thing To Do’ | Aaron Bennett |
00:17:59 |