Wake Island

United States

Wake Island connects to 9599 places across 22 topics through 240 Bunkabop connections, with military history making up the dominant share. The atoll shares strong ties with Japan and the Philippines through the Pacific theater of World War II: on 8 December Japanese forces assaulted the island, and 399 Marines of the 1st Defense Battalion surrendered on 23 December. The U.S. Air Force later used the atoll to process Vietnamese refugees during Operation New Life in 1975. A nature cluster links Wake to other remote Pacific atolls within the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument.