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Before MacArthur finally received the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay, though, would come three grinding years of "island hopping," the slow and painful campaign across the South Pacific from the fetid jungles of New Guinea to the barricaded caves of Okinawa. The first of these battles, and one of the...
More heroic but no less doomed was Wake Island, a tiny atoll between Hawaii and Guam. A Japanese fleet closed in to start landing troops at dawn on Dec. 11. U.S. Marines under Major James Devereux scored four direct hits on the flagship Yubari and sank two destroyers. The force...
The Japanese took the Wake garrison at its word. Reinforced by two carriers homeward bound from Pearl Harbor, they struck again before dawn on Dec. 23. Devereux's Marines fought hand to hand on the beaches for more than five hours. The Stars and Stripes was shot down, then hoisted...
Principal Craig Haugen said he was skeptical at first, but was convinced the club's motives weren't racist. "It's not a whites-only club," he says. In fact, 50% of the students who have signed up are Hispanic. Why the interest? The club will be teaching its members...
After the Pentagon announced that it had sent a few hundred Marines to Guantanamo Bay naval base in case the 15,000 American citizens in Haiti had to be evacuated, spokesman Pete Williams quickly explained that it was only a precaution. The U.S. had "absolutely no interest" in using force...