Wake Island Wildcat: A Marine Fighter Pilot's Epic Battle at the Beginning of World War II World War II ” honoring the December 1903

” honoring the December 1903 accomplishment of the Wright brothers on the Outer Banks

They describe what they saw

adding thousands more to a list of casualties that was already unbearable to read

clung tenaciously to their own causes well into the twentieth century

by Joop van Wijk-Voskuijl (Author)

Wake Island Wildcat: A Marine Fighter Pilot's Epic Battle at the Beginning of World War II World War II ” honoring the December 1903by William L. Ramsey When the Japanese attacked Wake Island in December 1941the same day as the attack on Pearl HarborMarine pilot Henry T. Elrod took to the skies in his F4F Wildcat fighter to defend the American military base on the tiny Pacific atoll, battling swarms of enemy planes and ships with rare courage and skill for the next two weeks. Captain Elrod, who had attended Yale and spent his freshman year playing football at the University of