An island in the western Pacific between Guam and Hawaii.
1Most of their husbands are on Wake Island.
2At Wake Island's core is a 3km-long runway.
3Besides numerous other small islands the United States possesses Tutuila in the Samoan group, Guam, and Wake Island.
4The warnings never reached Wake Island.
5The president left for Wake Island on October 11, 1950.
6It was bitter, for example, not to be able to relieve the heroic and historic defenders of Wake Island.
7Days after Bedell Smith took over, Truman was preparing to meet with General Douglas MacArthur on Wake Island in the Pacific.
8There were only some 400 United States Marines who in the heroic and historic defense of Wake Island inflicted such great losses on the enemy.
9In the Pacific the Government obtained Midway and Wake islands in 1900.
10Wake Island was the scene of fierce fighting between the US and Japan in World War II.
11Wake Island, however, is harder to reach.
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