Just hours after the bombings in Hawaii, the enemy also set their sights on the 1,600 Americans located on three tiny specks of coral 2,000 miles west of Honolulu, known as Wake Island.

the Battle of Wake Island. Roughly 500 United States Marines and another 1,100 civilians, many of whom worked for Boise-based Morrison-Knudsen, fought for two weeks to defend the island before ...