A remaining historic World War II naval gun on the shores of Eastern Island/Midway Atoll, surrounded by nesting Laysan albatross. During the war Eastern Island was defended by six coastal ...

The atoll includes Eastern Island, Sand Island and Spit Island. Advertisement Total area: 2.5 square miles, about nine times the size of the Mall in Washington, D.C.

The first time I traveled to Midway Atoll was 1996, a year before the U.S. Naval Air Facility closed. I was strapped into a tail-facing seat in the windowless belly of an Air Force cargo plane ...

Midway Atoll is just about the furthest piece of land from civilization and its constant engine whir, data and jostle. Standing on the island's remote shoreline brings a calm and humility -- until ...

A force of 108 Japanese planes hit Midway’s two islands at 6:30 a.m. Twenty minutes of bombing and machine-gun fire knocked out some facilities on Eastern Island, but did not disable the ...

According to archival records, only one P-40K Warhawk wrecked at the east of the reef of Eastern Island at Midway Atoll in February 1943, when the plane’s controls froze and the pilot, Lt. Ray ...

MIDWAY ATOLL, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands — Flying into the uninhabited Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, Midway Atoll appears out of the vast blue Pacific as a tiny oasis of coral-fringed land ...

A remaining historic World War II naval gun on the shores of Eastern Island/Midway Atoll, surrounded by nesting Laysan albatross. During the war Eastern Island was defended by six coastal ...