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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-411053

Wake Island


Overall mosaic prepared by the Photographic and Reconnaissance Unit, Patrol Wing Two, from vertical aerial photographs taken at 0900 on 3 December 1941.
The view is oriented on a NW-SW line, with the northeastern point of Wake at the top. Wake Island is at right, with Peale Island in the upper left and Wilkes Island in the lower left.

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

Online Image: 94KB; 740 x 415 pixels

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5 January 2001