America's Forlorn Hope US Marines Defend Wake Island: Dec 8-23, 1941 Introduction First Attack: Air Raid IJN Invasion Repulsed IJN Invasion: Round Two Surrender and Bibliography Map: Wake Island VMF-211 US Marines Defense Battalion Imperial Japanese Special Naval Landing Force Back to Table of Contents -- Against the Odds vol. 1 no. 2 Back to Against the Odds List of Issues Back to MagWeb Magazine List © Copyright 2003 by LPS. This article appears in MagWeb.com (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other articles from military history and related magazines are available at http://www.magweb.com * Buy this back issue or subscribe to Against the Odds direct from LPS.