Maj. Geoffrey Caton
Search results
Wake Island (Marshallese: Ānen Kio, lit. 'island of the kio flower'), also known as Wake Atoll, is a coral atoll in the Micronesia subregion of the Pacific Ocean. The atoll is composed of three islets and a reef surrounding a lagoon.
Wake Island, atoll in the central Pacific Ocean, about 2,300 miles west of Honolulu. It is an unincorporated territory of the United States and comprises three coral islets that rise from an underwater volcano to 21 feet above sea level.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The Battle of Wake Island was a battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II, fought on Wake Island. The assault began simultaneously with the attack on Pearl Harbor naval and air bases in Hawaii on the morning of 8 December 1941 (7 December in Hawaii), and ended on 23 December, with the surrender of American forces to the Empire ...
- 8-23 December 1941
- Wake Island, U.S. territory
Dec 11, 2022 · It's a story of survival on a desert island--and it helped change the course of WWII! Within hours of the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, about 1,600 US marines...
- 90 min
- 342.4K
- Military Heroes
Battle of Wake Island, (December 8–23, 1941), during World War II, battle for Wake Island, an atoll consisting of three coral islets (Wilkes, Peale, and Wake) in the central Pacific Ocean. During the battle a small force of U.S. Marines and civilian defenders fought elements of the Imperial.
- In January 1941 the United States began constructing military facilities on Wake Island for use as an advance defensive outpost. By December hundre...
- The Battle of Wake Island took place on Wake Island, an atoll in the central Pacific Ocean about 2,000 miles west of Hawaii and 600 miles north of...
- Although the Battle of Wake Island ended in a U.S. defeat, the Japanese navy suffered significant losses at the hands of a much smaller American fo...
- The Battle of Wake Island lasted 16 days, from December 8 to December 23, 1941.
- The Japanese won the Battle of Wake Island. They lost four ships, one submarine, and some 1,000 lives; just over 100 Americans and Guamanians died...
Dec 20, 2021 · Background. Wake Island was probably visited by Micronesian and Polynesian settlers, and oral legends tell of periodic voyages to the islands by people from the Marshall Islands. Wake Island was uninhabited when Spanish explorer Alvaro de Mendana de NEYRA became the first European to see it in 1568 and still had no humans when ...
The valiant defense of Wake Island by US Marines, sailors, soldiers, and civilians became a potent rallying point for Americans in the dark days after Pearl Harbor.
