Wake Island (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text 15th Civil Engineering Squadron.

This document contains the results of a damage assessment of the Wake Island National Historic Landmark conducted during May and June 2007. Wake Atoll is operated by the 15th Airlift Wing, Hickam Air Force Base, O’ahu Island, Hawai‘i. The current personnel population of approximately 117 would provide minimal security, maintenance, fire protection, repair of facilities damaged by Super Typhoon Ioke, and support to other federal agencies. Prominent landmark features, most of which are...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Civil Aeronautics Administration, Ninth Region, Honolulu, T.H..

Topographic maps of Wake Island.

DOCUMENT Full-Text 611th Civil Engineer Squadron.

A map of Wake Island Naval Air Base general location and construction from conditions on December 1, 1941.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Donald Wihelm.

A historical account of the attack on Wake Island from the American Legion Magazine.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Dirk H. R. Spennemann.

This paper details the early European history of the atoll and focuses on a shipwreck and the subsequent salvage events.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Marke E. Hubbs.

A short excerpt from the Military Heritage WWII History magazine about civilian World War II survivor, Glen Binge, who had lived through the battle at Wake Island and three and a half years as a Prisoner of War in Japan's most infamous prisoner of war camp.