Wake Island
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When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, America was at last forced to officially enter World War II. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt officially declared war on the Japanese and in his famous radio address to the American people, he professed that December 7 was a day that wo ....
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.... construction firm, Morrison-Knudsen, in addition to the Navy personnel and Marines who had been sent to defend the island.
The first attack came at noon on December 7, 1941, when 36 Japanese
bombers initiated the first bombing of the island. The bombings by the Japanese continued until December 23, when under continuous shelling, the Americans, under U.S. Navy Commander Winfield Scott Cunningham, were finally forced to surrender. Although the Japanese finally took the island, they in ....
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