Wake Island

American  

noun

1. an island in the N Pacific, belonging to the U.S.: air base. 3 sq. mi. (8 sq. km).

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Wake Island British  

noun

1. an atoll in the N central Pacific: claimed by the US in 1899; developed as a civil and naval air station in the late 1930s. Area: 8 sq km (3 sq miles)

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Wake Island

No sooner had he found his bunk than the Curtiss put to sea, joining a supply convoy to Wake Island, then to Midway.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2024

Wake Island and American Samoa followed in 1899, and the United States purchased the Virgin Islands in 1917.

From New York Times ● Jul. 7, 2023

It departed from California and made refueling stops in Hawaii, Wake Island and Guam before vanishing on the next leg of the flight to the Philippines on March 16, 1962.

From Seattle Times ● May 15, 2021

Weak defenses allowed Japan to conquer the Philippines, Guam and Wake Island in weeks.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 27, 2019

There were only some 400 United States Marines who in the heroic and historic defense of Wake Island inflicted such great losses on the enemy.

From State of the Union Address by Roosevelt, Franklin Delano