How To Use Wake Island In A Sentence
- That is why he went all the way to Wake Island.
- An interim report issued at year end concluded that the new design would exceed the B-17 and B-24 in every category, with the range to attack the homeland from Wake Island, almost 2,000 statute miles away. Whirlwind
- The mother sub was cruising near Wake Island on December 2.
- The Allies knew that orders to this effect had been issued and that they had been implemented in two instances, on Wake Island in October 1943 and on Palawan Island in December 1944. Between War and Peace
- In a memorable event involving such individuals, over one-half of the American defenders at Wake Island were civilian contractors building a U.S. naval base when the Japanese attacked in December 1941. David Isenberg: Fitting a Square PMC Into a Round IHL
- Last night, Japanese forces attacked Wake Island.
- Sometime ago we saw a report on the BBC showing garbage that had washed up on the shore of Wake Island so we had some separate substantiating information that they weren't putting us on. The Pacific Garbage Patch as a tourist destination?
- The name Wake Island has been officially changed to Wake Atoll. The 1999 CIA Factbook
- Truman and MacArthur met at Wake Island in the Pacific. David Colbert: Harry Truman Talks About Firing General Douglas MacArthur
- Other prewar plans had envisioned bombing operations against Japan from Wake Island, Guam, the Philippines, and the China coast. Whirlwind