A Magnificent Fight: Marines in the Battle for Wake Island

About this film

LibriVox recording of A Magnificent Fight: Marines in the Battle for Wake Island by Robert James Cressman. Read in English by Aaron Bennett. 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 For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit librivox.org . M4B Audiobook (71MB)

Directors & creators

Robert James Cressman

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks;wwii; battle in the pacific; usmc;; wake island

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