‘Wake Island’ opens in U.S. 70 years ago today (1942)


Video: 'Wake Island' trailer

(Tuesday, August 11, 1942)Wake Island, a film about the United States military garrison on Wake Island and the onslaught by the Japanese following the attack on Pearl Harbor, opened today in the U.S.

Directed by John Farrow, the film stars Brian Donlevy, Robert Preston and William Bendix.