Wake Island Wildcat

I highly recommend a welcome addition to the Wake Island library: Wake Island Wildcat: A Marine Fighter Pilot’s Epic Battle at the Beginning of World War II by William L. Ramsey (Stackpole Books, 2024). This is an intimate, well-sourced biography of the author’s great-uncle, Henry Talmadge Elrod, the Marine Corps captain who valiantly defended the island during the siege and battle of December 1941 and was posthumously awarded the Medal of...

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