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Cunningham, Chet Hell Wouldn't Stop: An Oral History of the Battle of Wake Island
Carroll & Graf Publishers November 2002 0-7867-1096-9 / 9780786710966 Hardcover NF/VG+
In this gritty, poignant, often disturbing oral chronicle of one of the fir st and most tragic military engagements in World War II, Chet Cunningham gi ves the gallant U.S. defenders of Wake Island-among them his older brother, Kenneth, then a private in the Marines-their long-overlooked due. For Kenn eth Cunningham, a serviceman in the defense battalion stationed on Wake Isl and, World War II began on December 8, 1941, just five hours after the Japa nese attack on Pearl Harbor. It ended on December 23. That day the Marines on Wake Island-their twelve Wildcat fighter planes lost, their forces dimin ished-faced an overwhelming enemy invasion, with the Japanese arriving in s o many ships that, as one eyewitness put it, they could have walked from on e to the other on the open sea. Private Cunningham and his fellow Marines f ought intrepidly, until their commanding officers ordered them to surrender . Their term in hell, though, had just begun. When the Marines laid down th eir arms they were stripped naked. With their hands bound, they sat naked i n the hot sun all day; at night they shivered in the cold. They suffered en dless days at sea jammed in the holds of ships that took them to prison cam ps in China and Japan. Forty-four months later, liberated at last, they wou ld return home unheralded and largely forgotten. Their often horrific, freq uently heroic story now stands recorded, for the most part in the words of the soldiers, sailors, Marines, and civilian personnel who were there, as w ell as of their wives and widows, in startling, unforgettable detail. Eight pages of black-and-white photographs add to this gripping reconstruction o
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