Wake Island
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...Dept. of the Interior and the U.S. Air Force. There is no indigenous...route to Asia and later served as a U.S. military base. In Dec., 1941, Wake Island was seized by the Japanese. U.S. forces bombed the island from 1942...