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Wake Island

2023-10-02 09:14:39

On December 7, 1941, when Japan blew up Pearl Harbor, America was forced to officially enter the Second World War. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt officially declared a war with Japan and with his famous radio address to the American people he claimed that December 7 is the day of notorious life. Both Americans and Japanese remember the day of Pearl Harbor, but the number of those who remember the brave Marines who fought under the name of Wick Island at a small atoll in the Pacific Ocean.

Wake Island was formerly a military stopover between the United States and Asia and a gas station, with an important strategic position and the longest runway on the island. Wake Island is the monthly slaughter, deprivation, fire, and the most ruthless skirmishes bloody in World War II. This is the notorious stage of the conference on the progress of the Korean War, President Truman led the General MacArthur to dismiss. During the Vietnam War, Wick was an important destination for the state.

Robert Shider is an experienced war reporter who attacked Aleutian Islands and Navy's Wake Island. However, these experiences did not prepare him for Tarawa's brutal fear. His observation of one of the most expensive fights in the history of the US Marine Corps was published as a book in early 1944. Within three minutes, the sky was recharged with a big gun orange - red flash and Olympus flourished again. The red fireball as an explosive bomb fell again to the horizon. But this time there was a massive destruction on the land of Betio. A flame shot a 500 feet in the air and when the shell finds the sign, another terrible explosion has taken place. Hundreds of wonderful Marines in the Blue Fox deck cheer for uncontrollable joy