Save the Wake Island Rail

Have the Marines Retake the Island in 1943 or 1944.

Or have the island not fall in the first place (due, for instance, to the relief force continuing to there instead of withdrawing); quite plausible (going off of CalBear et. al.'s statements on the matter), and would totally avoid the issue. Yay, another species of endemic flightless bird saved!
 

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Or have the island not fall in the first place (due, for instance, to the relief force continuing to there instead of withdrawing); quite plausible (going off of CalBear et. al.'s statements on the matter), and would totally avoid the issue. Yay, another species of tasty endemic flightless bird saved!
Agreed, and Fixed it for you.
 
Have the Marines Retake the Island in 1943 or 1944.

Short of having a wormhole open up and allow them to waddle into the future, liberating the island in '43 seems to be the only way to save the bird. That's assuming my people don't go off and pave the whole island over with airfields and harbor facilities afterward. That sort of environmental rearranging certainly would be determental to the species's health.
 
Are you sure you got that right?

I haven't even been able to find a narrow-gauge system on Wake Island - was this a Railway Conservation Project that failed?
 
Ahh, the early sailing of the relief fleet coupled with saving a bird from extinction, what a combo. I'd have the transports sail earlier than the Lex and have the faster Lex catch up, then the unloading could start before the Japanese attack. If Wake holds after the war moves on it would become a backwater and the rail will survive.
 
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