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FInding a battle postion

From left to right Maj. Gen. Orlo K. Steele, USMC (Ret.), Mr. John Dale, former W.I. defender and prisoner, Wayne White, project manager for Chugach , Dominic Leffler, Wake Island environmental manager and Scott Sweistal, Missile Defense Agency liaison. The group is discussing the location of the artillery gun placement battery Mr. Dale was assigned to during the battle for Wake Island Dec. 8 – 23, 1941. Nothing now remains of Dale’s gun placement but scrub trees and coral beach. Mr. Dale returned to W.I. on a tour with Military Historical tours Dec 12. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Tom Czerwinski)

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