Timeline Tuesday 23 December 1941

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Tuesday 23 December 1941

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Events on Tuesday 23 December 1941 1

1941 Battle of Wake Island US Marines repel the first Japanese landing The American garrison on Wake Island beat off a Japanese landing on 11 December, sinking two destroyers. A larger second assault forced the island's surrender on 23 December.

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