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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-411160

Wake Island


Aerial photograph taken from a PBY patrol plane on 25 May 1941, looking west along the northern side of Wake, with Peale Island in the center and right middle distance and Wilkes Island in the left distance.
The views shows civilian Camp Number Two on Wake, the bridge connecting Wake and Peale islands, the Pan American Airways facility on Peale and several PBYs moored to bouys in the lagoon off Peale.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

Online Image: 88KB; 740 x 605 pixels

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5 January 2001