This scenery shows the airfield used by US Navy and US Marines located on the Wake Atoll, 2300 miles west by southwest of Hawaii.
Composed of three small islands - Peale, Wilkes, and the main island Wake - in december 1941, the atoll was home to 450 Marines and sailors, Marine pilots of F4F Wildcat of squadron VMF-211, as well as nearly 1500 civilians, including employees of Pan Am airways, which operated a hotel and seaplane station as part of its Philippine Clipper service.
