The Battle of Midway changed the course of the Pacific War in four violent days. American codebreakers and carrier pilots ...

Isolated in the Pacific and hopelessly outnumbered, the defenders of Wake Island turned a barren atoll into a fortress against relentless Japanese assaults. Their astonishing resistance inflicted ...

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 defenders from ...

Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo honored the heroism of civilians that were pushed into World War II. Crapo joined Wake Island reunion leaders and families of veterans at the Wake Island memorial in Boise's ...

Here’s What You Need to remember: Today, Wake Island remains one of the most remote islands in the world, protected by miles and miles of open ocean. The rocky outpost has been modified extensively ...

BOISE -- Four men older than 90 gathered in Boise Friday with their families for an annual reunion. It was 71 years ago and they were all around 19-years-old and signed on with Morrison Knudsen to ...

The heroic defense of Wake Island in December 1941 by some 385 US marines has not only been reproduced as a screen feature almost minutely faithful to the facts but without stooping to cheapness in ...

Super Typhoon Ioke, a Category 5 storm and the strongest to hit the Pacific in more than a decade, slammed into tiny Wake Island Thursday, threatening to submerge the U.S. territory, U.S. Navy weather ...

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 island ...