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	The Defense of Wake: Appendix VII
		Wake Island (the main or center section of the "wishbone") is much the largest of the three, V-shaped and pointed toward the southeast, it comprises the outer perimeter of the eastern half of the atoll.
		The surface of the three islands is a smooth roll of disintegrated coral, interspersed with boulders, which are most numerous on Wilkes and the southern leg of Wake Island where they range to 5 or 6 feet in diameter.
		Vegetation is densest on the south leg of Wake Island, west and south of the airfield.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USMC/Wake/USMC-M-Wake-VII.html (1298 words)

	Wake Island. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Wake Island was discovered by the Spanish in 1568, visited by the British in 1796 and named after Capt. William Wake, and annexed by the United States in 1898.
		The island became (1935) a commercial air base on the route to Asia and later served as a U.S. military base.
		In Dec., 1941, Wake Island was seized by the Japanese.
	www.bartleby.com /65/wa/WakeIsl.html (162 words)

	Wake Island travel guide - Wikitravel
		The Wake Island atoll from the northeast, in 1941
		Wake Island is a tiny island in Micronesia, located 2/3 of the way from Honolulu to Guam, best known for its role in World War II.
		"Wake Island" is technically an atoll of three islands: Wake itself is V-shaped; Wilkes and Peale Islands are extensions of the legs of that V, separated from Wake by narrow channels.
	wikitravel.org /en/Wake_Island (1129 words)

	Snapshot of Oceania: Wake Island
		Wake Island (also known as Wake Atoll) is an atoll (having a coastline of 19.3 kilometers) in the North Pacific Ocean, about two-thirds of the way from Hawaii to the Northern Mariana Islands.
		A special military decoration, the Wake Island Device was also created to honor those who had fought in the defense of the island.
		Wake is claimed by the Marshall Islands and some civilian personnel ("contractor inhabitants") remain.
	www.sheppardsoftware.com /Oceaniaweb/snapshot/Snapshot-Oceania-21.htm (1193 words)

	History of Wake Island… : richard’s ramblings…
		Wake Island did not fall within the boundaries of the treaty as it is located at 166 degrees of longitude east of Greenwich.
		This finding directly contradicts the common opinion that Wake Island was included in the spoils of war between the United States and Spain as shared by such historians as Stanley K. Schultz, Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, but the language of the treaty is indisputable.
		However the island was acquired, the US Navy recognized the potential of Wake as a military base and contributed both materially and financially to the construction of Pan American facilities.
	www.richardsramblings.com /?p=137 (1882 words)

	Wake Island
		Wake is a V-shaped atoll in the northwestern Pacific, north of the Marshall Islands and lying between Midway and Guam.
		Wake to Honolulu N.85degrees E. Wake to Midway N.60degrees E. Wake to Guam S.75degrees W. Wake to Tokyo N.55degrees W. The atoll consists of three islets, Wake islet, the largest, on the southwest, has the shape of a V, the arms of which are about two and three-quarters land miles long.
		In places, such as the middle portion of the northern arms of Wake and the western ends of Wilkes and Peale, there were areas where trees were lowered and scattered and the undergrowth scrubby, as if here the sea occasionally broke across the rim at time of storms.
	www.janeresture.com /wake (2546 words)

	Wake Island
		Wake Island is a possession of the United States under the control of the Department of the Interior.
		Wake Island operates an international airport and harbor to facilitate transport of user material for support of test missions.
		Wake Island Marine assets include two LCM-8 vessels utilized as cargo handling lighters that unload the MSC supply ships.
	www.smdc.army.mil /kwaj/logistics/wake.html (304 words)

	WAKE ISLAND: 1941 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Wake Island is an atoll consisting of three islands with a lagoon, annexed by the United States as a result of victory over Spain in May 1898.
		In 1941 Wake was a small naval station and airstrip, defended by U.S. Marines, part of the U.S. military presence in the Pacific.
		In all, 1,462 military and civilian personnel fighting for the American side were taken to prisoner of war camps in China and Japan.
	www.olive-drab.com /od_history_ww2_ops_battles_1941wake.php (1161 words)

	WAR HISTORY
		A U.S. Navy task force carrying reinforcements for Wake Island was within 425 miles of the island at the time of the attack, however, the task force was recalled to Pearl Harbor prior to the surrender of the island.
		After the United-States captured the Marshall Islands in February 1944, additional air raids were staged from Kwajalein enabling the U.S. to impose a full naval and air blockade of Wake Island for the remainder of the war.
		During the Japanese occupation of Wake Island, Japanese casualties were over 2,700 (725 killed in action, 1,000 deaths from sickness or malnutrition, and 1000 sick and wounded who were evacuated during July 1945).
	www.goldtel.net /ddxa/war.html (811 words)

	Wake Island 1975. Photos of Vietnamese refugees on Wake Island in 1975
		The closest land to Wake is the Marshall Island of Bikini, 500 nautical miles to the south.
		Wake was one of the most important of these, and remnants of the ramp and other elements used by Pan Am remain on the Peale Island beach fronting the lagoon.
		Wake consists of 3 islands, roughly in a wishbone shape, forming the rim of an extinct volcano, with an opening pointing to the northwest.
	www.wakeisland1975.com (5637 words)

	Wake Island ~ Island of Valor
		Wake Island could be used as a reconnaissance base to watch the Japanese, or for retaliation against an attack on the United States.
		Many thought this to be a sound argument since Wake Island was a hard place to find, being so small and having scattered clouds around most of the time; also, the radiomen kept picking up funny signals on their frequency.
		Wake Island now houses a number of Thai’s, a few American Army soldiers, and a few American civilians, whose job it is to keep the trans-Pacific flights going for the military.
	www.geocities.com /vurleeb/wakeisland.htm (14444 words)

	Wake Island: definition, usage and pronunciation - YourDictionary.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		An island of the western Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and Guam.
		Annexed by the United States in 1898, it was a commercial air base and later a military base.
		Wake Island was held by the Japanese from 1941 to 1945.
	www.yourdictionary.com /ahd/w/w0011700.html (48 words)

	Andersen Team Prepares Wake Island for Aircraft
		Wake Island - After Super Typhoon Ioke's 155 mph winds and driving storm surge devastated Wake Island Aug. 31, members of the 36th Contingency Response Group at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, made up the initial assessment team sent to the island.
		With 16 members, the team's primary objective was to check for structural damage in the runway, taxiways and parking ramp on the island's airfield.
		The team was also tasked to determine if the military infrastructure on the island could be salvaged.
	www.military.com /features/0,15240,113576,00.html?ESRC=airforcenews.RSS (482 words)

	History of Wake Island
		The United States annexed Wake Island in 1899 for a cable station.
		In subsequent years, Wake was developed as a stopover and refueling site for military and commercial aircraft transiting the Pacific.
		Since 1974, the island's airstrip has been used by the United States military, as well as for emergency landings.
	infotut.com /geography/Wake-Island (91 words)

	Wake Atoll
		Wake Atoll that consists of three main islands: Wake, Peale and ?Wilkes
		Despite a heroic defense, the island fell to troops of the Japanese Special Landing Force on December 23, 1941.
		Emplaced by the Japanese on the northern coast of Peale Island.
	www.pacificwrecks.com /provinces/wake.html (639 words)

	Wake Island: Dec. 7-23, 1941
		Along with Guam, Wake Island was one of the key American outposts in the central Pacific, a vital part of the supply line between Hawaii and the Philippines.
		Composed of three small islands - Peale, Wilkes, and the main island Wake - the atoll was home to 450 Marines and sailors, as well as nearly 1500 civilians, including employees of Pan Am, which operated a hotel and seaplane station as part of its Philippine Clipper service.
		The Marines and others remaining on the island braced for the next attack, and for the arrival of an enemy cruiser and destroyer force the Clipper pilot had sighted over the horizon.
	www.cv6.org /1941/wake/wake.htm (749 words)

	Toxic Trade News
		The Department of Defense chose Wake Island, which is 2,460 miles west of Honolulu, after briefly considering shipping the 110 tons of waste to Johnston Island.
		Gerda Parr, a spokeswoman for the Defense Logistics Agency, yesterday said the waste will be stored on Wake Island for up to a year but also said there is no firm deadline for its removal.
		The waste was collected from U.S. military bases in Japan and includes surplus electric transformers, circuit breakers and other electrical equipment that contain traces of polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs.
	www.ban.org /ban_news/tw_held.html (556 words)

	Those Who Also Served: The Civilian Construction Men Of Wake Island
		Of the 1,100 civilians, who originally went to Wake Island to build the Navy base, many lost their lives in the initial combat for the Island.
		After the island fell, the survivors were shipped off to P.O.W. camps in China and Japan to wait out the rest of the war.
		It is to these men of Wake Island and to all those who served their country with little or no recognition and whose service was all to quickly forgotten, that this film is dedicated.
	www.wakeislandmovie.com (378 words)

	Amazon.com: Wake Island: Video: Brian Donlevy,Robert Preston,Macdonald Carey,Albert Dekker,Barbara Britton,William ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Wake Island, a sandbar rising 21 feet out of the South Pacific, was among the first U.S. outposts to be hit by the Japanese, virtually simultaneously with Pearl Harbor.
		Wake Island follows this formula so effectively and professionally that, despite how dated some of it is, it still (at least for me) can get the emotional juices flowing.
		Wake Island itself is an atoll in the middle of the Pacific, scarcely more than an airstrip with sand.
	www.amazon.com /Wake-Island-Brian-Donlevy/dp/6300185192 (2478 words)

	Super typhoon Ioke is barreling towards Wake Island (Military, civilians & contractors evacuating) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Wake Island is where the light blue dot is on this map.
		The Island or atoll originally consisted of two small islands and a main reef, Johnston Island was only 64 acres in size with a smaller outlying island call "Sand Island" of only 3 to 4 acres in size.
		The island is administered by the Air Force and is a National Wildlife Refuge for birds, monk seals, sea turtles, etc..
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1691126/posts (3381 words)

	Communications Office - NWS Focus - May 3, 2004
		Getting to Wake Island is not easy and once there, you may get to leave in a few hours or you may have to stay a few days.
		A former active military base, Wake Island sits in the middle of the ocean, a 7 1/2-hour flight southwest of Honolulu, HI.
		Wake is one of the few landmasses in the data-sparse Pacific.
	www.nws.noaa.gov /com/nwsfocus/fs050304.htm (1733 words)

	Truman Library Wake Island
		That is why he went all the way to Wake Island instead of asking General MacArthur to meet him half-way, for example; and as I understand the President's visit it was for the purpose of getting a better understanding between the two of them.
		At the time the conference at Wake Island was proposed, the President first said he wanted to take all of the Chiefs of Staff.
		At the time of the Wake Island meeting, as Personal and Confidential Assistant to Ambassador at Large Philip C. Jessup, I was an employee of the Department of State.
	www.trumanlibrary.org /wake (1922 words)

	Military Of Wake Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
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	www.appliedlanguage.com /country_guides/wake_island_country_military.shtml (185 words)

	Ship carrying PCBs will now head to Wake Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Pacific island, once the scene of a fierce World War II battle, has some limited use to the military and to commercial planes, which make emergency landings there.
		Wake Island also will provide an emergency landing strip for the 14 containers of electrical waste, which must leave Japan by May 18.
		The waste will be stored on the island temporarily, then shipped again when the Defense Department finds a final disposal site, she said.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /national/pcbs09.shtml (438 words)

	Stars & Stripes
		The military airfield on Wake Island is structurally sound despite the thrashing from Super Typhoon Ioke last month, but the power delivery and waste water systems were destroyed, members of the Air Force’s damage assessment team said Thursday after returning to Guam.
		The island’s nearly 200 residents — all of them servicemembers, Defense Department civilian employees or military contractors — were evacuated a few days before the storm hit.
		About 70 percent of the buildings on the island were moderately to severely damaged and the facilities lack running water, according to an Air Force news statement.
	www.estripes.com /article.asp?section=104&article=40066 (577 words)

	Wake Island travel guide
		Wake Island travel guide - The best resource for sights, hotels, restaurants, bars, what to do and what to see
		Wake Island, part of the United States is located in the Pacific Ocean and uninhabited.
		Wake Island's flag is the flag of the United States.
	www.world66.com /australiaandpacific/wakeisland (163 words)

	MSFSC News
		USNS San Jose was mobilized and heeded the call for support in assisting the U.S. Air Force’s 36th Contingency Response Group in assessing typhoon damage and capability of the airstrip on the island.
		Upon arrival, the air detachment began ferrying supplies and equipment to Wake Island to begin the assessments.
		Navy personnel teamed up with the Air Force contingency response group to drill small holes through the concrete and asphalt in the runway and adjacent taxiway to test structural integrity of the soil beneath, ensuring the runway was safe to use when the cargo planes began arriving.
	www.msc.navy.mil /msfsc/news.asp?show=1161891459&edition=112006 (489 words)

	Damage on Wake less than feared, flyover shows (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		A Sept. 2 flyover of Wake Island by a U.S. Coast Guard aircrew following the passage of Super Typhoon Ioke shows damage to the civil engineer industrial area.
		The team will conduct a detailed survey of the island and check the integrity of island structures, the Coast Guard said.
		All 188 island residents had been evacuated on two C-17 Globemaster IIIs from the 15th Airlift Wing at Hickam AFB.
	www.af.mil /news/story.asp?id=123026374 (397 words)

	Wake Island :: Maps :: Information :: Statistics
		The US annexed Wake Island in 1899 for a cable station.
		note: US military personnel have left the island, but contractor personnel remain; as of October 2001, 200 contractor personnel were present (July 2004 est.)
		Economic activity is limited to providing services to contractors located on the island.
	www.maps4free.com /map-of-wake-island.php (346 words)

	About the USA > Travel > The States & Territories
		Atoll of three coral islands built up on an underwater volcano; central lagoon is former crater, islands are part of the rim.
		Occasional activities on the island are managed by the US Army under a US Air Force contract.
		Note: US military personnel have left the island, but contractor personnel remain; as of October 2001, 200 contractor personnel were present (July 2003 est.)
	usa.usembassy.de /wakeisland.htm (353 words)

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