(U.S. Coast Guard photo by Lt. Cmdr. Scott Handlin) The Coast Guard completed the medevac of a 52-year-old man from Midway Atoll last Thursday. Coast Guard Joint Rescue Coordination Center Honolulu ...

Midway is roughly 1, 300 miles northwest of Oahu and from 1941 until 1993 was the home of Naval Air Facility Midway Island, which played a crucial role in the Battle of Midway in June 1942.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials said Wisdom, approximately 74 years old, returned to Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge in late November. She has a new mate, and has laid another egg.

She’s still busy with family matters. Wisdom laid a new egg this year at the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge in Hawaii. Wisdom’s egg announcement came via the United States Fish ...

The Japanese decided to seize Midway island in order to force the US fleet to come out and do battle, so that it could then be decisively defeated. A base on Midway would provide an "unsinkable ...

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