 Complete the following phrase:  The Wake Island rail is classified as extinct. Its inability to fly and the islands geographic isolation, combined with the birds inquisitiveness and lack of fear of humans, made it an easy victim of over-hunting. It is now known that the extinction event occurred specifically between 1942 and 1945. This was a direct result of the presence of thousands of starving Japanese troops stranded on the island after a U.S. blockade of the island took place as a direct result of the 