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| Keywords: usaf u.s. air force usairforce pacaf pacom wake island wakeisland jber joint base elmendorf-richardson jointbaseelmendorfrichardson prsc 611th asus 611thasus world war ii worldwarii wwii 75th anniversary 75thanniversary battle of wake island battleofwakeisland David Seymour, an air traffic control specialist and former Army Scout working under a U.S. Air Force contract with a civilian corporation, speaks with U.S. Marine Corps and Air Force aircraft arriving at Wake Island Airfield on a trans-Pacific mission. Wake Island, "Where America's Day Really Begins," is an American possession in the middle Pacific within the Micronesia subregion, 2300 miles west of Hawaii and 2000 miles southeast of Tokyo. The coral atoll comprises three islands and roughly 2.8 square miles of dry land. In recognition of its importance during WWII in the Pacific and to thousands of species of sea birds, fish, and other oceanic flaura and fauna today, Wake Island is designated as both a National Historic Landmark and part of the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument. David Seymour, an air traffic control specialist and former Army Scout working under a U.S. Air Force contract with a civilian corporation, speaks with U.S. Marine Corps and Air Force aircraft arriving at Wake Island Airfield on a trans-Pacific mission. Wake Island, "Where America's Day Really Begins," is an American possession in the middle Pacific within the Micronesia subregion, 2300 miles west of Hawaii and 2000 miles southeast of Tokyo. The coral atoll comprises three islands and roughly 2.8 square miles of dry land. In recognition of its importance during WWII in the Pacific and to thousands of species of sea birds, fish, and other oceanic flaura and fauna today, Wake Island is designated as both a National Historic Landmark and part of the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument. | ||||
