Midway Islands
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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Navy met and defeated an overwhelming force of Japanese ships and planes around the Midway Islands on June 4, 1942.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 18, 2020
The Midway Islands provided a more stable path to Asian markets and a vital naval coaling station, which steamships needed in order to travel further afield.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 30, 2014
He also pushed through the annexation of the Midway Islands in the Pacific Ocean, which subsequently opened a more stable route to Asian markets.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 30, 2014
The Navy's new station on the Midway Islands, first pier in the tenuous 5,860-mile water bridge between Pearl Harbor and the Philippines, was in com mission.
From Time Magazine Archive
With the homeward-bound pennant flying from the mainmast head and with the contractor's working party on board, we sailed from the Midway Islands on Friday, October 29, at 4 P.M. for San Francisco.
From The Last Cruise of the Saginaw by George H. Read
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