A Magnificent Fight
Title | A Magnificent Fight PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Cressman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 48 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Government publications |
ISBN |
A Magnificent Fight
Title | A Magnificent Fight PDF eBook |
Author | Robert J. Cressman |
Publisher | DIANE Publishing |
Pages | 39 |
Release | 1996-11 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 0788135236 |
A Magnificent Fight
Title | A Magnificent Fight PDF eBook |
Author | Robert J Cressman |
Publisher | Naval Institute Press |
Pages | 323 |
Release | 2013-09-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1612512305 |
Soon after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese land-based bombers pounded Wake Island, the American advanced base that was key to the U.S. Navy’s strategy in the Pacific. Throughout the next two weeks, the Wake Island garrison survived nearly daily bombings and repulsed the first Japanese attempt to take the atoll. The determined defenders provided a badly needed lift to American morale. Cressman was the first to make extensive use of Japanese materials to identify the enemy order of battle and the roles each unit played in the drama to provide a moving account of the heroism of the defenders in the face if tremendous odds.
A Magnificent Fight
Title | A Magnificent Fight PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Cressman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 35 |
Release | |
Genre | Wake Island, Battle of, Wake Island, 1941 |
ISBN |
A Magnificent Fight: Marines in the Battle for Wake Island
Title | A Magnificent Fight: Marines in the Battle for Wake Island PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Cressman |
Publisher | CreateSpace |
Pages | 40 |
Release | 2013-02-08 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781482391411 |
The book is part of the Marines in World War II Commemorative Series. It recounts the marine battle in the Wake Island and references specific subjects, such as aircraft, personalities, and campaigns.
A Magnificent Fight: Marines in the Battle for Wake Island
Title | A Magnificent Fight: Marines in the Battle for Wake Island PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Cressman |
Publisher | VM eBooks |
Pages | 113 |
Release | 2016-07-19 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
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. Word of war comes around 0700. Captain Henry S. Wilson, Army Signal Corps, on the island to support the flight ferry of B-17 Flying Fortresses from Hawaii to the Philippines, half runs, half walks toward the tent of Major James P. S. Devereux, commander of the battalion’s Wake Detachment. Captain Wilson reports that Hickam Field in Hawaii has been raided.
A Magnificent Fight: Marines in the Battle for Wake Island
Title | A Magnificent Fight: Marines in the Battle for Wake Island PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Cressman |
Publisher | CreateSpace |
Pages | 100 |
Release | 2015-04-30 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781511969369 |
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. Word of war comes around 0700. Captain Henry S. Wilson, Army Signal Corps, on the island to support the flight ferry of B-17 Flying Fortresses from Hawaii to the Philippines, half runs, half walks toward the tent of Major James P. S. Devereux, commander of the battalion's Wake Detachment. Captain Wilson reports that Hickam Field in Hawaii has been raided. Devereux immediately orders a "Call to Arms." He quickly assembles his officers, tells them that war has come, that the Japanese have attacked Oahu, and that Wake "could expect the same thing in a very short time."