GILBERT Bonita L. <br/><br/>
Building for war :  the epic saga of the civilian contractors and marines of Wake Island in World War II / 
Bonita L. Gilbert 
 - Havertown, Pa. ; Newbury :  Casemate,  2012. 
 - xix, 364 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781612001296 (hbk.) :  20.00 GBP 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>WORLD WAR, 1939-1945--CAMPAIGNS--PACIFIC AREA<br/>WAKE ISLAND, BATTLE OF, WAKE ISLAND, 1941