Building for War: The Epic Saga of the Civilian Contractors and Marines of Wake Island in World War II  tells the story of Depression-era civilian contractors who come to a remote Pacific atoll in 1941 to build a naval air station. One of a dozen Pacific projects contracted by the United States Navy, Wake is the most challenging in terms of distance and physical features. Read an excerpt from Building For War Introduction Chapter 4 excerpt...

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Where’s Wake? You can see it near center top of this map, west of Hawaii, north of the Marshall Islands. Click the map for a larger view. You may also view the map as a PDF here.

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