The POWs slated to leave the island were rounded up on January 12, 1942, to board the transport ship Nita Maru. Dar Dodds should have been heading home. “My contract on Wake Island was up that ...

On December 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor wasn't the only American military installation attacked by the Japanese ...

Melbourne World War II prisoner of war Tom Pechacek, who was wounded during the December 1941 bombing of Wake Island and waited 76 years to receive his Purple Heart, has died at age 98. American ...

More than 76 years after the U.S. Marine Corps veteran was wounded during the December 1941 bombing of Wake Island — then captured and imprisoned in China, Korea and Japan — Pechacek has ...

He remained on Wake Island for Christmas 1941, but by Jan. 15, 1942, was a passenger aboard the Nitta Maru, a Japanese aircraft carrier, bound for Zentsuji, a prison camp in Japan.

A memorial in honor of Chamorro defenders of Wake Island during World War II was rededicated on June 7. The memorial was erected on Wake Island in 1991, three years after the surviving defenders ...

More Photos1 | 2 | 3A memorial to prisoners of war is seen Jan. 12 on Wake Island. The "98 Rock" is a memorial for the 98 U.S. civilian contract POWs who were forced by their Japanese captors to ...

In the 44 months since his capture on Wake Island after the Japanese attack ... Some civilian survivors never made it off the island. On Oct. 7, 1943, 98 American POWs who remained were ...

Marine veteran John Dale and other hostages who were captured on Wake Island in December 1941 were surrounded by a group of Japanese soldiers who were armed with machine guns, Ex-POW recalls ...

Wake Island was devilish, ... The majority of the American survivors were sent to POW camps in Asia, though some contractors were kept on the island to build the Japanese fortifications.

He remained on Wake Island for Christmas 1941, but by Jan. 15, 1942, was a passenger aboard the Nitta Maru, a Japanese aircraft carrier, bound for Zentsuji, a prison camp in Japan.

The only prisoners left on Wake Island were 98 American civilian workers, forced to work on various projects. According to the U.S. Naval Institute, ...