Wake Island - History

Part of: Wake Island Airfield

Site Name Keywords
Building 1601 • Building 1808 • Building 1730

Other Keywords
United States Air Force • 11th Air Force • 611th Civil Engineer Squadron • 611th • Pacific Air Forces • 611th Air Support Group • Historic Context • History • Architectural Features • Magazine

Investigation Types
Historic Background Research • Records Search / Inventory Checking • Architectural Documentation • Remote Sensing • Architectural Survey • Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis • Reconnaissance / Survey • Heritage Management

Temporal Keywords
World War II

Geographic Keywords
Wake Island (Country) • Wake Island • Wake I. (State / Territory) • Oceania (Continent) • Wake Atoll • Wilkes Island

Resources Inside This Collection (Viewing 1-5 of 5)

  • Documents (5)
  • The Defense of Wake (1947)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text R. D. Heinl, Jr..

    The Defense of Wake is one of a series of operational monographs designed to provide both student and casual readers with thorough and complete narratives of the major operations in which Marine Corps units participated during World War II. As a sufficient number of monographs are brought to completion, these, in turn, will be condensed and edited for final compilation into official operational history.

  • Life on Wake Island - From a Japanese Diary (1945)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text E. A. Junghans.

    Diaries of life on Wake Island, 1944-1945

  • Wake Atoll Air Traffic Control Towers (2017)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Carrie Cecil.

    The purpose of this report is to establish the historic context for air traffic control tower and air traffic control support facility development on Wake Atoll. A critical component of any airfield, the air traffic control towers, and support facilities on Wake contributed to the safe and organized passage of aircraft through and over the atoll. Air traffic control facilities were an important aspect of Wake’s operation as a major aviation hub from 1935 to 1972. This report outlines the...

  • Wake Atoll Water Systems (2017)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Carrie Cecil.

    This report outlines the history of Wake Atoll’s water systems from 1935 to the present with a particular emphasis on the construction and operation of those facilities and structures associated with desalination activities and water production. It is broken down into four main components. This report is not intended to be an authoritative account of either the history of Wake Atoll or the history of desalination. Rather it is intended to provide contextual information about the significance and...

  • WWII History Magazine: Wake Island Survivor (2012)
    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.