Vinson Voice Dec. 8

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DECEMBER 8, 2013

USS CARL VINSON (CVN 70) VOL 4 ISSUE 21

The Battle of

Wake Island ay Leno JGives Thanks, Welcomes Military Ranks

Tuning Up for Some Jingle Bell Rock

Preparing for the Next Level

Q&A

Montgomery and Post 9/11 G.I. Bill

The “98 Rock” on Wake Island is a memorial for the 98 U.S. POWs, who were forced through slave labor by their Japanese captors to rebuild the airstrip, then were blind-folded and killed by a machine gun, Oct. 5, 1943. An unidentified prisoner escaped and chiseled “98 US PW 5-10-43” on a large, coral rock near their mass grave on Wake Island. The prisoner was recaptured and beheaded by Japanese Rear Adm. Shigematsu Sakaibara, who was later convicted and executed for war crimes. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Shane A. Cuomo)


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