A grateful FDR paid tribute to their fighting spirit, which inspired Hollywood's first World War II movie "Wake Island." In this episode, you'll meet the legendary defenders of Wake Island ...

A memorial in honor of Chamorro defenders of Wake Island during World War II was rededicated on June 7. The memorial was erected on Wake Island in 1991, three years after the surviving ...

Since the Allies recaptured it in the final days of World War II ... Wake Atoll has become a national landmark and a refueling stop for military aircraft. Now, however, the Air Force base on the ...

A new book, “Building for War: The Epic Saga of the Civilian Contractors and Marines of Wake Island in World War II,” tells the story of the race to build naval and air bases on the island at ...

Google Maps has captured a remote island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. It’s a tiny place but the spot - roughly 2,300 miles west of Honolulu - hides a dark and gruesome history.

Jasper Dawson of Butte, a prisoner of war all throughout World War II. Since his story was published ... bombing raid 2,300 miles away, at Wake Island and its smaller islands, Peale and Wilkes.