Marines/Naval Landing on Makin Island to Assault the Japanese.

U.S. Marine Corps Raid on Makin Island

Finnish drawing about 2 soldier on their post.
Kari Suomalainen.
1942.11.09

Guarding Fatherland borders

An early radio message of the Japanese air strikes on the U.S. Navy and Army installations at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.  It was received by the carrier U.S.S. Wasp in the early morning hours of that day of "infamy!"  She was of course out at sea ferrying aircraft to areas deemed more likely to have been struck by the Empire's elite naval aviators...