File:Wake civilian contractors marching in captivity 1941.jpg

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Description Civilian contractors are marched off to captivity after the Japanese captured Wake, 23 December 1941. Some, deemed important by the Japanese to finish construction projects, were retained there. Fearing a fifth column rising, the Japanese executed 98 contractors in October 1943 after U.S. air attacks, an atrocity for which atoll commander, RAdm Shigematsu Sakaibara, was hanged after the Second World War.
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Source U.S. National Park Service website A MAGNIFICENT FIGHT: Marines in the Battle for Wake Island [1] photo from the U.S. Marine Corps Historical Collection
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