98 rock, Wake Island

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U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Shane A. Cuomo

Kredit:

https://media.defense.gov/2008/Jan/16/2000412578/-1/-1/0/080112-F-2034C-203.JPG

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https://dkwiki.dk/b/78a4

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beskrivelse:

The "98 Rock" is a memorial for the 98 U.S. civilian contract POWs who were forced by their Japanese captors to rebuild the airstrip as slave labor, then were blind-folded and killed by machine gun Oct. 5, 1943. An unidentified prisoner escaped, and chiseled "98 US PW 5-10-43" ("98 US Prisoners of War 5 October 1943") on a large coral rock near their mass grave, on Wilkes Island at the edge of the lagoon. The prisoner was recaptured and beheaded by the Japanese admiral, who was later convicted and executed for war crimes. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Shane A. Cuomo)

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