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...casualties, the Marines had suffered heavily. VMF-211 had twelve officers, 49 enlisted men, when the Jap struck. On Dec. 20, 27 were dead, seven were in the hospital, six more wounded but on their feet...
...been at work on the island deepened air-raid shelters, helped out Marines at their tasks. On the airdrome, mechanics and officers of the Marine's air squadron, VMF-211, patched up new planes from the tangled junk of their original twelve, now broken and burned by Jap bombs...
...time for the patrol boat to leave. The props were ticking over. The 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...
Good to the Last Squad. Out of Wake on the 20th came the last report from the men who went down fighting two days later. Released last week by the Navy at Washington, it added new fuel to the imperishable flame of their heroism. It also proved that the Jap had had to pay a bitter price for the capture of the outpost and its thin line of defenders...
...many men the Jap had lost is not known. But he had lost the services of a small fleet of ships-seven in all-a light cruiser, four destroyers, a gunboat and a submarine. Some, including the cruiser, were sunk, the others crippled by gunfire and bomb. In the air, the pilots of VMF-211's single-seaters had also knocked down five Jap bombers...