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Building for war : the epic saga of the civilian contractors and marines of Wake Island in World War II / Bonita L. Gilbert

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GILBERT Bonita L

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Havertown, Pa. ; Newbury : Casemate, 2012.Description: xix, 364 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cmISBN:

9781612001296 (hbk.) :

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Summary: Building for War tells the story of the thousand plus, depression-era civilian contractors who came to Wake Island, a remote Pacific atoll, in 1941 to build an air station for the U.S. Navy.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Mindef Library & Info Centre On-Shelf	940.542665 GIL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		40932-3001
Book	Training Institute Library On-Shelf	940.542665 GIL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		40932-2001

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Building for War tells the story of the thousand plus, depression-era civilian contractors who came to Wake Island, a remote Pacific atoll, in 1941 to build an air station for the U.S. Navy.

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