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Although Wake Island is officially called an island in its singular form, it is geologically an atoll composed of three islets (Wake, Wilkes, and Peale islets). [150] They enclose a shallow lagoon of 3.3 by 7.7 kilometers (2.1 by 4.8 miles), with average depth of around 1 meter (3.3 feet) and a maximum depth of 4.5 meters (15 feet).
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The Battle of Wake Island was a battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II, fought on Wake Island.The assault began simultaneously with the attack on Pearl Harbor naval and air bases in Hawaii on the morning of 8 December 1941 (7 December in Hawaii), and ended on 23 December, with the surrender of American forces to the Empire of Japan.
Debris and wreckage line the streets of the "downtown" area of Wake Island on Sept 14, 2006. Super Typhoon Ioke swept through on Aug 31 with wind speeds of 155 mph and gusts at 190 mph. A team of civil engineers and COMM experts deployed to the atoll from Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii, to estimate the extent of the damage left by the category 5 ...
Wake Island Airfield (IATA: AWK, ICAO: PWAK, FAA LID: AWK) is a military air base located on Wake Island, which is known for the Battle of Wake Island during World War II. It is owned by the U.S. Air Force and operated by the 611th Air Support Group .
Servicemembers search for POW/MIAs on Wake Island : Source: Digital: Image title: A memorial to prisoners of war is seen Jan. 12 on Wake Island. The "98 Rock" is a memorial for the 98 U.S. civilian contract POWs who were forced by their Japanese captors to rebuild the airstrip as slave labor, then blind-folded and killed by machine gun Oct. 5 ...
The Tanager Expedition's tent camp on Wilkes Island in 1923 The SS North Haven unloads supplies for the Pan-American seaplane airport in the 1930s Japanese landing on Wilkes in the battle for Wake Island The Marine counter-attack to the landing. Wilkes Island is a small islet that is part of the Wake Island, a remote atoll in the Pacific. The ...
Pages in category "Wake Island" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...