More Japanese surprise attacks

8th December 1941: The attack on Pearl Harbor was just hours ahead of many more assaults on American and British positions

Just hours after the attack on Pearl Harbour, the Japanese launched attacks on US outposts in the Pacific and on the main British Imperial outposts in the Far East.

On Wake Island¹, an important staging post in the middle of the Pacific, 1000 nautical miles from Midway and 2000 miles from Hawaii, the US Marines were about to begin a legendary defence act…