POW 253: One Man`s Quest for Life During World War II, Kibble Dare K.

Dare K. Kibble was one of a small number of sailors on Wake Island in 1941, volunteering for refueling duty on what seemed to be a paradise in the South Pacific. He wasnt a marine or a civilian contractor, nor was he trained for combat-he was a machinists mate from the USS Tangier. He manned a Browning .30-caliber machine gun in the final beach defense of Wake Island, and was taken prisoner on December 23, 1941. He survived four years as a POW-in China at the Woosung and Kiangwan camps, and in Japan at the Kawasaki and Niigata camps on Honshu.