500 US soldiers on Wake Island took a half Month before Japanese attacks, despite the disadvantage of forces and was not supplied.

On December 7, 1941, Japan suddenly attacked the US base at Pearl Harbor and caused heavy damage.

In 1941, the US only had 500 soldiers closed in Wake Island, mainly Marines, with some types of firecrackers and 12 outdated Wildcat F4F-3 fighters.

The shadow of 2111-F-11 fighters was controlled by Elrod when sinking Kisaragi.

36 Japanese G3M3 muscles started to bomb wake islands in the morning of December 8, destroying 8 fighters F4F-3 parked on the runway.

Japanese opening attacks excluded from the round of fighting 34 out of 55 US Marines Air Force on the island, including 23 deaths and 11 injured people.

American soldiers rushed to prepare a defensive battle to deal with the second attack, moving the position of the radiation alley and building a wooden model to deceive the opponent's photos.

On December 9, Japanese troops continued to attack, destroying a Hospital and Airport of Pan Am.

On December 11, Japan deployed three light cruisers, 6 destroyers, two patrol boats and two transport vessels carrying 450 naval soldiers hitting the campaign to occupy the island.

During the fighting process, Captain Henry Hank Elrod alone confronted 22 Japanese aircraft and shot down two Zero fighters.

No Wildcat fighter was shot down in the battle, but after many times of depreciation, the US military on Wake island only two F4F-3 is enough to take off.

"Spare parts are swapped between plants, no airplanes are originally shaped. The engine is transferred from one plane to another, disassembling, crumbs and assembly", missing

Two Japanese patrol vessels are stranded when landing the island.

The Defense Efforts of American Forces made the Japanese Navy suffer from large losses with two destroyers sunk and more than 407 casualties before withdrawing.

Winfred Cunningham, commanding the US defense force on Wake Island, praised the non-fighting defense team without a firepower control system, said that 4 Wildcat pilots confronted with many enemy aircraft attacks

However, soldiers defended out of bullets and necessities.

The Japanese Navy lost two patrol boats during the island approach, but landed forces to the shore and fought with the American Marines.

The American troops on Wake island finally to surrender due to overwhelming about numbers, out of ammunition and necessities.

Japan gained Wake Island after half a month to fight with a very expensive price.