Wake Island was a small American outpost west of Hawaii with incomplete defenses, a handful of Marines, Navy personnel, Army ...

The Navy plans to fly P-8 Poseidon reconnaissance planes from the island, one of several World War II-era airfields being reactivated.

Fugro has been chosen by Jacobs to conduct a nearshore site investigation on Wake Island, a remote US territory located in the central Pacific between Hawaii and Guam. The isolated coral atoll serves ...

After Pearl Harbor, Wake Island became one of America’s first desperate defensive stands against Japan. Marines, sailors, ...

"Uncommon courage was a common virtue": this was said of Marines on another island, Iwo Jima. Texas journalist Sloan's excellent research, interviewing and journalistic prose will have readers of this ...

Heavily bombarded during a bloody two-week battle in World War II and the subsequent 44-month occupation by the Japanese before being handed over to US forces on September 4, 1945, Wake Atoll has ...

First U.S. Unit To Use F-35 In Combat Continues Legacy of Famous WWII Squadron. This past week I had the privilege of spending time with the men of Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 211 (VMFA-211), the ...

Early on December 8, 1941, an American radio technician on Wake Island opened daily communications with the US Navy base at Pearl Harbor, located on the other side of the international date line. The ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. I remember pumping 100s of hours into the Battlefield 1942 demo back in the 90s, which was just the iconic Wake Island map but man, it was revolutionary.

The heroic defense of Wake Island in December 1941 by some 385 US marines has not only been reproduced as a screen feature almost minutely faithful to the facts but without stooping to cheapness in ...