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...13th day of Wake's hopeless, gallant fight. For the first time since the Japanese had struck on the morning of Dec. 8, the bright, pitiless Pacific sky was dulled. Over that tiny speck of sand on the 167th meridian east of Greenwich the clouds hung mercifully low. Those Marines of the original 378 who were still on their feet worked with tight-lipped earnestness against the next attack...
...boat thundered across the lagoon, took the air, melted into the clouds. Wake's men knew the next face they would see would be the face of the Jap. Two days later when the Jap had landed and the last struggle was going, their commander radioed a last gallant message: "The issue is in doubt." But from the hour when the patrol plane left, every man on the island must have been quite sure that the issue was not in doubt-it was inevitable...
...getting out nf hours before 1941's end, the Kearneys pay only 1941 tax rates on the huge sale. To help the ladies under the wire, Blyth & Co. (with co-underwriters The Wisconsin Co.) handed over the cash before they had sold a single share of stock. Their gallant risk panned out. This week investors were anteing $5,249,200 for the 198,083 K. & T. shares sold by the Kearneys...
...News of your gallant struggle against the Japanese aggressor has elicited the profound admiration of every American. As President of the United States, I know that I speak for all our people on this solemn occasion...
...impregnable has been assaulted. Once again British forces have gone out to battle inadequately supported from the air. Once again the boasts of the week before the campaign began have been made to look silly. Once again the public have been fed on stories of heroic stands and gallant retreats...