I lived there for 2years in the early 1950s. We played in the Japanese bunkers, dove off a bridge between Wake and Peale. The adults created a 9 hole golf course in the lagoon. It was called the Low Tide Country Club. There was a 2 room schoolhouse, a drive in, walk-in movie theater and a 20 watt radio station, WAKE. Good times!

My KC-135 that I crewed in the late 1990s had a mission here. It was an awesome, yet lonely place to visit. I loved seeing the dark starry sky and hearing the ocean waves. A ton of crabs on the beach though. Our mission was to help a Turkish cargo ship that was battered on it's inside and we had a team of CG underwater welders and their equipment plus some scientists/engineers. Got a Humanitarian aid medal for that mission.

Been there done that Many many times in the early 70's C-141. Love it! And that speck of land still looks smaller.

Now that is a out of the way remote spot of the world! In a DC-10 too!

What a beautiful place...was there twice in 2000. Loved it...

That landing woke me up! Excellent video - thanks

Sure seemed like a hard hit but really fantastic footage of such an incredible historic and remote island!.

it is used as an emergency landing strip for pacific crossing aircraft

Wow. This brings me back.

Landed there in 1980 on a hop from Guam to Hawaii. We had to refuel there.

Damn Capt that was a rough touchdown 😮

If DOD should reconsider Johnston atoll as possible military bases again. Be just like Wake islands. Runway is 9000 feet long. Plus ship docking, possible or buildings still standing as infrastructure. That islands has been a backup for years. Don't know if radiation is still there.

Wake Is is no longer open to the public. Its is a Detachment base of the 15 Air Wing USAF. You need prior permission to visit.

Holy god it looks like Sand Island.

I always think of the Marines that were here in WWII......Brave brave souls....

of course!

Landed there in late 1970 on my home from the Philippines to be discharged from the Air Force. Never got the plane.

Landed there in 1960 US Navy in Constellation Jan 1 st.

i wish the battlefield map was as big as the actual island

We touched down at Wake in 1960 on-board a Pan American 707-100, in transit to Tokyo out of SFO, just shy of the time (not sure exactly when) passenger traffic across the Pacific no longer required the pit-stop for fuel. IRC, PanAm started non-stop traffic to the Far East out of the U.S. west coast beginning with the 747's after the 1969 Trans-Pacific Route Case, c. 1970. So there are people still alive who (sort-of) remember when those fuel tanks were a sight for sore eyes. In dreams I see gun batteries defending our last exit to Manila in 1942.

Home sweet home ,1975 operation baby lift! Highest population on that rock since second world War. The Japanese guns and bunkers were still there, a six pack of bear and a lawn chair on the beach with no bugs. It was a little oasis.

In this video (2009) there are 3 large fuel tanks off to the left on Wilkes island - but in later years videos there are only 2. What/why happened to the third tank?

Battlefield 2 version was awesome

Last here in 1962

@ariel001able how did you manage to get food on that island...there is not exactly a supermarket available or something?

Was anyone there on the island? I was just looking at google earth images and it almost looks abandoned. I wish civilians could visit.

I wanna go there... But are there any laws? Like who runs it?

Is there a way to get like a small holiday or a visit of the island? And yes people, it is a military base.

how come the can find it in a plane but i cant fricken find it on google earth

How long is that runway ?

nope it's still there in the map,midway island got the most damage then wake island

they did not have any residual from the quake

How did you get permission to land here?

how do you go there?

Thats ah what's up bitches...Sir!

all the regular people know too

Good brownies in the box lunch.

I didn't see any aircraft carrier

Couldn't you keep the camera still?

Been there done that numerous times.

me 2 :)

Are there dinosaures???)))

I never had a nice landing at PWAK.

Pass below the bridgesssss!!! :D all BF players will know what I'm talking about! :P

in Battlefield 3 it looks more beautiful

19.30118,166.626878 No problem.

The US never reclaimed the island, instead using it for target practice and isolated it. Only after the war did the US reclaim the island.

Esa isla debería ser entregada a las Islas Marshall, le pertenecen por su posición geográfica.

hahahahahahaha that would be awesome and dangerous :P

English isn't your first language, is it?

I bombed this airfield so many times

google earth brought me here

Welcome to fucking no where!

can i go their in vacation?-Lol...

Battlefield 5 =)

Too bad civilians can't live here. Its a pretty cool island.

Waths up bitches :D :D :D Cool Video

haha

if you learned how to spell that might have been a good story