Individual #battle_of_Wake_Island__battle_of_Wake  in December 1941 the island was captured by the Japanese after a gallant last-ditch stand by a few hundred US marines
  instance of:  amphibious_assault
  location:  Wake_Island
  part of:  World_War_II__World_War___Second_World_War  a war between the Allies (Australia Belgium Bolivia Brazil Canada China Colombia Costa-Rico Cuba Czechoslovakia Dominican-Republic El-Salvador Ethiopia Greece Guatemala Haiti Honduras India Iran Iraq Luxembourg Mexico Netherlands New-Zealand Nicaragua Norway Panama Philippines Poland South-Africa United-Kingdom US USSR Yugoslavia) and the Axis (Albania Bulgaria Finland Germany Hungary Italy Japan Rumania Slovakia Thailand) from 1939 to 1945

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