Midway Islands

Wake and Midway islands are in Japanese hands.

Priacanthus meeki is a red fish found in Hawaiian and Midway Islands.

Midway Islands: no longer under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Navy, now inhabited only by caretakers.

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During this passage, rough seas and inclement weather slowed her progress, and Anaqua headed for Midway Islands to refuel.

Steaming via Midway Islands and Pearl Harbor, she reached San Francisco, California, 25 November.

Hewell's shakedown cruise initially took her across the central Pacific Ocean to Midway Islands, Guam and Saipan.

Upon arriving Honolulu on 28 January, she acted as a station tug, mail boat, and even surveying ship between the main islands and Midway Islands.

From April 1955 through the remainder of the year, she carried cargo from Pearl Harbor to Midway Islands and the Marshall Islands.

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto planned to lure and destroy USN carriers by attacking the Midway Islands in June 1942.

And unlike the first time Mr. Kohlmann rang in the new year there, the show will carry on until the Midway Islands follow the rest of the world into the 21st century.

Until on 30 June 1942, she escorted convoys to San Francisco, Palmyra, Christmas, and Midway Islands, and swept and patrolled in Hawaiian waters.

Departing 26 October, she steamed via Midway Islands and Pearl Harbor for the U.S. West Coast, arriving San Francisco 25 November.

On 4 January 1952, Toucan sailed for Sasebo and called at Pearl Harbor and Midway Islands before reaching Sasebo on 2 February.

They were later warned that following Doolittle' bombing raid the emphasis was changed from New Guinea to Midway Islands where the Japanese thought the bombing raid had come from.

Henderson Field (originally known as Naval Air Station Midway Islands) on East Midway Island is a former World War II airfield in the Central Pacific.

For distinguished conduct in the line of his profession, extraordinary courage, and disregard of his own condition during the bombardment of Sand Island, Midway Islands, by Japanese forces on December 7, 1941.

The zone includes the U.S. territory of American Samoa, as well as the Midway Islands and the uninhabited islands of Jarvis, Palmyra, and Kingman Reef.

The United States held multiple island dependencies in Asia during World War II such as American Samoa, Guam, Hawaii, Midway Islands, Wake Island and others.

But he did add that he regards Navassa's legal status as no different from that of several remote islands in the Pacific that the United States administers, including Howland and Midway Islands.

In 1962 he became the first black officer to command a United States warship when he was named skipper of the destroyer Falgout, which patrolled the so-called Pacific Barrier between the Aleutian and Midway Islands.

The Japanese navy had experienced two decisive defeats, first in the Coral Sea in May, and then at the Midway Islands in June, seriously damaging Japan's naval air power, which had been the key to its early victories.

The battle, fought between June 4 and June 6, 1942 near the islands, saw the United States Navy defeat a Japanese attack against the Midway Islands, marking a turning point in the war in the Pacific Theater.

Redstart commenced another tour of the Far East on 7 October 1955, stopping at Pearl Harbor and the Midway Islands for food and fuel before arriving at her temporary home port of Sasebo, Japan, on 4 November 1955.

The Hawaii Admission Act explicitly specified that the State of Hawaii would not include Palmyra Island, the Midway Islands, Johnston Island, Sand Island (off-shore from Johnston Island), or Kingman Reef.