Veterans recall service to their country Nov 13, 2008
Streeter helped provide air support from 1942 to 1945 and took part in attacks on Japanese garrisons in the Marshall Islands, Wake Island, Guam, Saipan and Iwo Jima. Proud of his service, to this day Streeter serves on the Arthur DeFranzo Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2346 color guard. (Saugus Advertiser, MA)
Semper Fi, Marines and happy 233rd birthday Nov 10, 2008
He served six years during World War II at places made famous by the Marines: Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, Midway, Tinian, Okinawa, Wake Island ... When I think of Wake Island and the guys there, all they cared about was doing what they were trained to do. (Mason City Globe-Gazette, IO)
Robert Barrow, 86; general led, reformed Marine Corps Nov 3, 2008
After Pearl Harbor, General Barrow, inspired by the Marines' heroic but ultimately unsuccessful defense of Wake Island in December 1941, was attracted by a double-page Marine Corps recruiting ad in The Baton Rouge Morning Advocate. He joined the Marines in March 1942. (Boston Globe)
Memorandum from the President Aug 26, 2008
In the central Pacific, coral reefs, pinnacles, sea mounts, islands and surrounding waters of Johnston Atoll, Howland, Baker and Jarvis Islands, Kingman Reef, Palmyra Atoll, Wake Island, and Rose Atoll that are isolated from population centers, mostly uninhabited, and support endemic, depleted, migratory, endangered and threatened species of fish, giant clams, crabs, marine mammals, sea turtles, seabirds, migratory shorebirds and corals that are rapidly vanishing elsewhere in the world ...... (White House News Releases)
Elemental beauty Jul 18, 2008
Many of her most memorable sunsets have come at sea, particularly one she saw at Wake Island, about halfway between Hawaii and Japan. It was over calm, shallow waters, with a bright yellow sun, she said. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
The sacrifice of war seen through a bubble Jul 6, 2008
But he also remembers the night over Wake Island ... 1st raid to Wake Islands ack-ack pretty dense. (Missoulian, MT)
LETTERS: NCT, June 22, 2008 Jun 23, 2008
In memory of Tony Oubre, a survivor of Wake Island, POW and now deceased, I (a survivor of Pearl Harbor) solemnly dedicated the retirement of a flag. Others made similar dedications. (North County Times)
Battlefield 2142 Patched Jun 1, 2008
- Added community maps, Wake Island 2142 and Operation Shingle - Added the ability to use widescreen resolutions. - Added No Vehicles mode. (IGN PC Games)
Voice of the people May 24, 2008
In addition to this and his sketches for an eighth volume of Narratives of Empire, Vidal is working on a stage play, his first for many years, involving General MacArthur and President Truman at Wake Island at the end of the war. He writes his novels in longhand, "but with a play or an essay I just type it, because you want to see what you're doing as quickly as possible". (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Dawgs at War, Pt. 1 May 23, 2008
As a Marine Corps aviator, Captain Elrod went on to become the first flyer to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, for his heroism in the defense of Wake Island, located between Oahu and Guam in the South Pacific. Elrod, who attended Yale as well as Georgia, was a 14-year service veteran when the war in the Pacific broke out. (Georgia Sports -- Rivals.com)
Veterans' stories make history come alive May 22, 2008
He remembers how he and his U.S. Marine buddies created a handball court on a Pacific beach and how for a time they were served so much meat, two kinds for every meal, that everybody gained weight and how he was transferred to Wake Island just before the attack on Pearl Harbor ... Holewinski was eventually captured by the Japanese while on Wake Island; he had a bullet lodged near his spine. (Kalamazoo Gazette, MI)
Amid steel, under fire May 12, 2008
Kim said other civilian workers have been awarded battlefield medals and Purple Hearts for their efforts on Wake Island and Hickam Air Field during the 1941 Japanese attack. "I am still hoping the military will recognize these guys.". (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
Battlefield 2142 Patch Plans May 2, 2008
Wake Island, a popular map from Battlefield 1942 and Battlefield 2, will return thanks to the folks at Sir. Then there's Jason Brice's map Operation Shingle, formerly known as Anzio. (IGN PC Games)
Jacobs: Five years later, Iraq is still a mess Mar 19, 2008
In February 1942, the USS Enterprise struck the Japanese on Wake Island but was driven off, and a month later there was a largely ineffective raid on New Guinea. In June, we launched the air attack on Japan by Jimmy Doolittle, but there were only 16 planes involved, and the largely symbolic attack caused little damage. (MSNBC -- Terrorism)
Oscar has been visiting these shores for ages Feb 24, 2008
Another little-known winner is John Farrow, the late father of the actress Mia Farrow, who was nominated for directing Wake Island then triumphed for the screenplay of Around The World In Eighty Days in 1956. For Muggleston, an Academy Award was just one highlight of an international career that included such big movies as Lawrence Of Arabia, The Taming Of The Shrew and Doctor Zhivago after leaving Sydney for London. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
AMY GOODMAN: Lessons endure in struggle for social justice Feb 22, 2008
They put him in a bed behind a sheet marked "Prisoner of War." Kochiyama recalled what her mother said: "When she saw the reaction of all the American patients who were just brought in from Wake Island, she didn't think he was going to last. And so, she asked the head of that hospital, could he be given a room by himself, and then when he was feeling better, could they take him ... to the prison, because that hospital, she said, was probably worse than prison, because here were all these... (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
Mea culpas for last week's Geo Quiz Dec 23, 2007
As a great many of you pointed out, in World War II there were land battles fought on Guam, Wake Island and the Philippines, all of which were part of the United States at the time (Guam and Wake Island still are). And there were more than a few battles between the U.S. military and various Lakota, Cheyenne, Sioux, Apache and other Indian armies. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
Click for Full Story Dec 23, 2007
In 1941, during World War II, American forces on Wake Island surrendered to the Japanese. In 1947, scientists at Bell Laboratories in New Jersey demonstrated their just-invented point-contact transistor, which paved the way to a new era of miniaturized electronics. (KWTX.com, TX)
Heroes Of The Pacific Dec 21, 2007
Sign up to get coupons, news, discounts, cheats, etc. Experience the epic scope of air battle, placing hundreds of planes on the screen in a single confrontation. (USA Today -- Tech)
Sleeping in a Yurt, Retching in a Sink: Globetrotters Trade Tales, Slides Dec 12, 2007
By contrast, Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. pilot Rowland Burley has been to all of the places on the TCC list except Wake Island and Cabinda, a hard-to-reach Angolan enclave on the west coast of Africa. Burley, 55, has been living in Hong Kong for 19 years, after 20 years spent in Kenya, where he first took to the skies in a light aircraft. (Bloomberg -- UK)
U.S. forgetting ‘day of infamy, ’WW II Vets dying at rate of 1,300 a day Dec 10, 2007
wrote on Dec 7, 2007 11:57 PM:" There have been so many days of infamy since, that it's hard to put one day ahead of the other in levels of importance. Lets see now, D- Day at Normandy, The Italian Campaign, Corregidor, Iwo Jima, Saipan, Wake Island, Midway Island, Pusan Perimeter, Inchon, Chosin Resevoir, Ia Drang Valley, Tet Offensive, Panama, Gulf War, Marine Barracks in Lebanon, Two Embassy bomings in Africa, Twin Towers in NYC, and now nearly 9000 dead and three times that number seriously... (Wellsville Daily Reporter, NY)
Odds and ends to end the week Dec 8, 2007
To commemorate the attack on Pearl Harbor (today is the 66th anniversary), Turner Classic Movies is running a couple of high-octane WWII films, including From Here to Eternity and Wake Island. Check local listings. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
66 years later, Pearl Harbor still vivid for veterans Dec 7, 2007
Hughes went on to fight in many of the major battles of the war's Pacific campaign, including Midway and Wake Island. He was aboard the U.S.S. Northampton when it was sunk during the battle of Guadalcanal. (Conroe Courier, TX)
Isle hurricane season mostly calm Dec 3, 2007
Hawaii wasn't affected by Ioke, a Category 5 storm renamed Super Typhoon Ioke by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center, but 88 residents of Wake Island were evacuated by the Air Force Aug. 28 and flown to Honolulu. About 70 percent of the buildings were damaged. (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
The distant fire Oct 1, 2007
Occasional slips of other sorts - MacArthur's inexplicable blunder of Dec. 8, 1941, was to lose his air force on Luzon, not Wake Island - might well have been corrected had Halberstam not died before publication. But the book, overall, is compelling and insightful - and timely. (Boston Globe)
Copley News analysis Sep 14, 2007
Not since an embattled Harry Truman flew 7,100 miles to Wake Island to meet the popular Gen. Douglas MacArthur in October 1950 has any American president gone to such lengths to associate himself with one of his generals. The White House, of course, hopes this relationship has a happier ending than what transpired back then since Truman found himself firing MacArthur only seven months after their meeting, plunging him even deeper in the polls. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
SPECIAL REPORT: Questions Raised About Claims By Photographer -- And His Son Responds Sep 5, 2007
When O Donnell died last month, the Times cited well-known images he took credit for, including President Truman and General MacArthur at Wake Island and Vice President Nixon in his kitchen debate with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. But it was the following that eventually sparked the blowback: And the O Donnell photograph of John F. Kennedy Jr., saluting his father s coffin became the most reproduced version of that memorable scene. (MediaWeek.com)
Joseph O'Donnell; captured images of Hiroshima, 5 presidencies Aug 16, 2007
As a presidential photographer, Mr. O'Donnell caught images of Harry S. Truman and General Douglas MacArthur shaking hands at their meeting on Wake Island during the Korean War; Vice President Richard M. Nixon in his kitchen debate with Soviet leader, Nikita S. Khrushchev; and President Kennedy deciding whether to go ahead with the Bay of Pigs invasion ... In the National Public Radio interview he gave 12 years ago, he told of having summoned his courage to ask Truman, while walking on a Wake... (Boston Globe)
The Most Famous Photographer You Never Heard Of -- Who Harbored Horrific 'Secret' -- Dies at 85 Aug 16, 2007
O Donnell s story was that he had been walking with Truman on a Wake Island beach in 1950. Truman had gone there for his key meeting with General McArthur to discuss the Korean war (O Donnell would take another historic photo documenting that). (MediaWeek.com)
Sealy ISD honors three retiring teachers Jun 5, 2007
After high school graduation, he was drafted out of college into the U.S. Air Force, where he spent four years and traveled to Alaska, Japan, Okinawa, the Phillipines, Wake Island, Guam, Taiwan and Vietnam. During his time in the Air Force, he spent summers attending military school in Denver, Colo. (Sealy News, TX)
65th anniversary of Midway battle May 31, 2007
Japanese forces ousted the United States from Wake Island, Guam and the Philippines in rapid succession in the months after Pearl Harbor. Japan also drove the British, U.S. allies, from Singapore. (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
Believe it or not May 3, 2007
Taylor was a civilian construction contractor on Wake Island when it fell to the Japanese on Dec. 23, 1941, resulting in his capture. Today he shrugs off those who suggest his story sounds too amazing to be true. (Las Vegas Sun)
Pilot: 'The Lord preserved me' Apr 2, 2007
When Navy Lt. Kelt L. Thomas was flying his Grumman F6F Hellcat over Wake Island and the Japanese mainland in July and August 1945, he didn't think much about his own safety or his immortal soul ... The Air Medal citation reads that, over Kyusu and Honshu and Wake Island, from March 18 to Aug. 13, 1945, he "extensively damaged hostile aircraft, airfields and installations." The award document was signed by James Forrestal, then Secretary of the Navy. (The St. Augustine Record)
Road kill (Oliver North) Apr 1, 2007
Three weeks after Pearl Harbor, nearly 100 American civilian construction contractors were killed and wounded standing shoulder-to-shoulder with U.S. Marines and sailors defending Wake Island. When the tiny garrison was overwhelmed on Dec. 23, 1941, more than 1,000 contractors became prisoners of the Rising Sun and scores were subsequently worked to death and massacred by their captors. (Washington Times, DC)
Kliewer lived his high ideals Mar 30, 2007
Kliewer was a Marine in World War II who was captured after the first battle of Wake Island and spent four years in a Japanese prisoner of war camp. If any man ever earned the right to hate, it was Kliewer, but he went the opposite direction. (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
More of this story Mar 29, 2007
The Astoria left Pearl Harbor and headed to Wake Island, but the Japanese had already occupied the island. The Astoria then headed toward the Aleutians. (Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise, OK)
Doctor, community friend remembered Mar 26, 2007
He also fought in hand-to-hand combat on Wake Island, killing two men, according to a copy of a speech he gave ... Captured at Wake Island in 1941, Dave had survived nearly four years of imprisonment; I knew that he had personally suffered far more than I from Japanese brutality. (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
WORLD WAR II STARS FLY IN Jan 24, 2007
"Our plane was the Gooney Bird, named for the black-footed albatrosses on Wake Island," he said. "We bombed Wake Island.". (Florida Times-Union)
OVERNIGHT VIEWING / Highlights of programming airing 1:30 a.m. to 6:30 a.m. Jan 7, 2007
TCM, Movie: "Wake Island" 5703508. THINK, Earth Revealed: Introduction to Geology 863614. (Buffalo News -- Entertainment)
