What the records say
- When
- 8 Dec 1941 – 23 Dec 1941
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 19.29° N, 166.60° E
- Description
- 1941 battle of World War II
- War
- World War II
Battle of Wake Island
World War II battle in the Pacific Ocean (1941)
The Battle of Wake Island was a battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II, fought on Wake Island. The assault was one of five simultaneous assaults on American naval and air bases in the Pacific on the morning of 8 December 1941, with the Battle of Wake Island ending on 23 December, with the surrender of American forces to the Empire of Japan.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA · Read the article
6 sources record it
- Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributorsCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Die Schlacht um Wake beginnt”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “prise de l'atoll de Wake par les Japonais”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Persian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “جنگ جهانی دوم: پیروزی نیروهای امپراتوری ژاپن در نبرد جزیره ویک”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “日本軍がウェーク島上陸”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page