Senin, 24 Juli 2017

Interactive- U.S. Marines Defend Wake Island, 1941

Choose the correct plan for an American gun crew facing Japanese invaders. You are U.S. Marine Corps Lieutenant Woodrow M. Kessler, commander of an eight-man gun crew. Your 5-inch gun, once mounted on a U.S. Navy battle- ship, is part of the defensive shore batteries for Wake Island, a remote American outpost in the Pacific …

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