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1. Building for war : the epic saga of the civilian contractors and marines of Wake Island in World War II [2012]

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Book — xix, 364 pages, [16] pages of plates : maps, illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary
This intimately researched work tells the story of the 1000 plus civilian contractors who came to Wake Island, a remote Pacific atoll, in 1941 to build an air station for the US Navy. Bonita Gilbert charts the contractors hard-won progress as they scramble to build the naval base as well as runways for the US Army Air Corpss B-17 Flying Fortresses while war clouds gathered over the Pacific.
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