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  2. Shigematsu Sakaibara - Wikipedia

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    The formal surrender of the Japanese garrison on Wake Island - 4 September 1945. Sakaibara is the Japanese officer in the right foreground. Shigematsu Sakaibara (酒井原 繁松, Sakaibara Shigematsu, December 28, 1898 – June 19, 1947) was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy, the Japanese garrison commander on Wake Island during World War II, and a convicted war criminal.

  3. Battle of Wake Island - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Wake Island was a battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II, fought on Wake Island.The assault began simultaneously with the attack on Pearl Harbor naval and air bases in Hawaii on the morning of 8 December 1941 (7 December in Hawaii), and ended on 23 December, with the surrender of American forces to the Empire of Japan.

  4. List of expansion operations and planning of the Axis powers

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    Operation A (Japanese Invasion of South-East Asia in 1941) Operation E "Malayan" (Invasion of British Malaya) Operation B (Invasion of Borneo) Operation C (Invasion of Hong Kong) Operation M (Invasion of the Philippines) Operation H (Invasion of the Dutch Indies [now Indonesia]) Operation G (Invasion of Guam and Wake Island)

  5. Wake Island - Wikipedia

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    The U.S. Navy established a submarine blockade instead of an amphibious invasion of Wake Island. The Japanese-occupied island (called Ōtorishima (大鳥島) or Big Bird Island by them for its birdlike shape) [81] was bombed several times by American aircraft; one of these raids was the first mission for future United States President George H ...

  6. List of territories acquired by the Empire of Japan - Wikipedia

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    Japanese Occupation of Tsingtao; All ports and major towns in the Primorsky Krai and Siberia regions of Russia east of the city of Chita, from 1918 until gradually withdrawing in 1922. [1] North Sakhalin was occupied by Japan 1920–1925. Japanese occupation of German colonial possessions

  7. Sadamichi Kajioka - Wikipedia

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    The Defense of Wake; A Magnificent Fight: Marines in the Battle for Wake Island; Part Three: The Defense of Wake; Wake Island at IMDb Wake Island: Alamo of the Pacific at IMDb Spennemann, Dirk H. R. (2000–2005). "To Hell and Back: Wake During and After World War II". Digital Micronesia. Charles Sturt University

  8. South Seas Mandate - Wikipedia

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    The islands are now part of Palau, the Northern Mariana Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of the Marshall Islands. [3] In Japan, the territory is known as "Japanese Mandate for the Governance of the South Seas Islands" (委任統治地域南洋群島, Inin Tōchi-ryō Nan'yō Guntō) [4] and was governed by the Nan ...

  9. 1945 Katsuyama killing incident - Wikipedia

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    The 1945 Katsuyama killing incident was the killing of three African-American United States Marines in Katsuyama near Nago, Okinawa after the Battle of Okinawa on July 10, 1945, to August 13, 1946. Residents of Katsuyama had reportedly killed the three Marines for their repeated rape of village women during occupation of Okinawa and hid their ...