The island was held by the Japanese for the duration of the Pacific War theater of World War II the remaining Japanese garrison on the island surrendered to a detachment of United States Marines on 4 September 1945, after the earlier surrender on 2 September 1945 on the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay to General Douglas MacArthur. It was fought on and around the atoll formed by Wake Island and its minor islets of Peale and Wilkes Islands by the air, land, and naval forces of the Japanese Empire against those of the United States, with Marines playing a prominent role on both sides. The assault began simultaneously with the attack on Pearl Harbor naval and air bases in Hawaii on the morning of 8 December 1941 (7 December in Hawaii), and ended on 23 December, with the surrender of American forces to the Empire of Japan. The Battle of Wake Island was a battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II, fought on Wake Island. 399 infantry of the 1st Defense Battalionġ,104 civilians interned, of whom 180 died in captivity. Reinforcements arriving for Second Attempt (23 December):
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