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This was the first such visit by a group of former Wake Island POWs and their families. [127] On November 24, 1985, a Pan Am Boeing 747, renamed China Clipper II, came through Wake Island on a flight across the Pacific to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the inauguration of Pan American China Clipper Service to the Orient.
Location of Peale islet within Wake. Peale is on the north-west side of Wake Island, and major points on Peale include Toki Point, which is the western cape of Peale.On the southern side there is an extension of land into the lagoon that points south-east and ends at Flipper Point. [3]
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 ...
This group includes within its scope all articles related to Wake Island, its cities, geography, transportation, culture, history and so on. It aims to expand Wikipedia's resources on Wake Island in a fair and accurate manner. All of these articles should be contained within the Category:Wake Island or one of its subcategories.
The Republic of the Marshall Islands has claimed Wake Island, which it calls "Δ€nen Kio" ("Enen-Kio" in older Marshallese orthography).In 1973, Marshallese lawmakers meeting in Saipan at the Congress of Micronesia, the legislative body for the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, asserted that "Enen-Kio is and always has been the property of the people of the Marshall Islands."
Passengers and crew of Pan Am's China Clipper II Boeing 747 at Wake Island during a 1985 trip across the Pacific to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first China Clipper flight. Japan Airlines (JAL) used both Wake Island and Honolulu as stops on its initial Tokyo-San Francisco service flown with Douglas DC-6 prop aircraft in the mid-1950s ...
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.
The Wake Island Device is an award device of the United States military which is presented as a campaign clasp to both the Navy and Marine Corps Expeditionary Medals. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The Wake Island Device is authorized for any sailor or Marine who was awarded the Navy or Marine Corps Expeditionary Medal due to service during the defense of Wake ...