This is the story of one man’s battle for survival. Fred Rumple wasn’t a soldier or sailor. He was a civilian; a construction worker who was hired by a large construction company to build improvements on Wake Island in the mid Pacific. The events of this story were taken from Fred’s memoirs and other research to get a better perspective of this little-known World War Two battle. Fred and those who survived the four years of beatings, starvation, and imminent death, is a testament to what man can endure to survive.<