enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Battle of Wake Island - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Wake_Island

    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.

  3. List of aircraft carrier operations during World War II

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_carrier...

    USS Enterprise was 200 miles west of Hawaii, returning from Wake Island. [18] IJN Protection for 1st Air Fleet Returning Home From Pearl Harbor Raid (Dec 8 1941) IJN Main Body/3rd Carrier Division (distant cover): IJN Hōshō (CV) IJN Zuihō (CVL) IJN Invasion of Wake Island (7–23 December 1941) IJN Sōryū (CV) IJN Hiryū (CV)

  4. Wilkes Island - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilkes_Island

    It was the location of some of the fighting during the Battle of Wake Island in December 1941. Wilkes was the site of a shore battery and defenses, as part of the overall defenses of Wake island, when WW2 broke out. Japanese troops landed on the Wilkes island as part of the invasion of island, which fell 23 December 1941. [9]

  5. VMFA-211 - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMFA-211

    In November 1941, VMF-211 embarked 12 of its 24 F4F-3 Wildcats and 13 of its 29 pilots aboard USS Enterprise for movement to Wake Island, the scene of the squadron's heroic battle, launching from the carrier and arriving at Wake on 3 December. [4] On 8 December 1941, the Japanese attacked Wake, destroying seven of the aircraft on the ground.

  6. Henry T. Elrod - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_T._Elrod

    On December 4, 1941, Captain Elrod flew to Wake Island with twelve aircraft, twelve pilots, and the ground crew of Major Paul A. Putnam's fighter squadron, VMF-211. Hostilities in the air over Wake Island commenced on December 8, 1941. On December 12, he single-handedly attacked a flight of 22 enemy planes and shot down two.

  7. Japanese submarine Ro-61 - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_submarine_Ro-61

    [3] [12] Ro-62 followed on 14 December 1941. [13] The Battle of Wake Island ended as Wake Island fell to the Japanese on 23 December 1941. [3] Ro-61 saw no action off Wake and returned to Kwajalein on 27 December 1941. [3] She and Ro-62 were reassigned to the Marshalls Area Guard Unit on 5 January 1942 and patrolled off Kwajalein thereafter. [3 ...

  8. Wake Island - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake_Island

    After three days, a naval assault was attempted but rebuffed on December 11, 1941. The island continued to be bombed, and the Japanese amassed a larger invasion fleet. There was a 50-plane air raid on December 21, 1941. The Japanese returned on December 23, 1941, with a much larger amphibious force and captured the island.

  9. Japanese submarine Ro-60 - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_submarine_Ro-60

    She was in commission from 1923 to 1934 and from 1940 to 1941. Before World War II, she served in the waters of Japan. During World War II, she took part in the Battle of Wake Island in December 1941, and was damaged by a F4F-3 Wildcat during that battle. The submarine wrecked three weeks later trying to make it back to base, running aground on ...