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100 1 $aCunningham, Chet,$eauthor.
245 10 $aHell wouldn't stop :$ban oral history of the Battle of Wake Island /$cChet Cunningham.
246 30 $aOral history of the Battle of Wake Island
250 $a1st Carroll & Graf ed.
264 1 $aNew York :$bCarroll & Graf Publishers,$c[2002]
264 4 $c℗♭2002
300 $axvii, 283 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 265-267) and index.
520 8 $aThis gritty, poignant, sometimes disturbing oral chronicle reconstructs one of the first and most devastating military engagements in World War Ii -- the battle for Wake Island -- in the words of the U.S. servicemen who survived it and the hellish aftermath. Among those men stood author Chet Cunningham's older brother, Kenneth, then barely eighteen and a private in the U.S. Marine Corps.
505 0 $aWake Island : what, where, why -- Getting ready for war -- The attack -- First bombing and invasion attempt, December, December 8-11 -- Daily bombing raids, December 1-22 -- The final battle, December 23 -- Surrender -- Prisoners of war.
650 0 $aWake Island, Battle of, Wake Island, 1941$vPersonal narratives, American.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$vPersonal narratives, American.
611 27 $aWake Island, Battle of (Wake Island :$d1941)$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01169982
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648 7 $a1939 - 1945$2fast
655 4 $aWake Island (Pacific Ocean). Japan --Prison camps -- World War II. China -- Prison camps -- World War II.
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