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CFS Scenery--Wake 1941. New version of an old scenery uploaded on 2003. Now with new realistic airfields layout, new buildings macros and textures, and new 3D macros of American ground vehicles. This scenery shows the airfield used by US Navy and US Marines located on the Wake Atoll, 2300 miles west by southwest of Hawaii. Days before Pearl Harbor, Enterprise carrier had delivered the Marine pilots and F4F Wildcat of squadron VMF-211, who played a vital role in the island's defense on December 1941. The incredible courage of the Marine airmen defenders deserves to be remembered. Composed of three small islands - Peale, Wilkes, and the main island Wake - the atoll was home to 450 Marines and sailors, Marine pilots of F4F Wildcat of squadron VMF-211, as well as nearly 1500 civilians, including employees of Pan Am airways, which operated a hotel and seaplane station as part of its Philippine Clipper service. By Edmundo Abad.