evidence: Wake Island is an atoll (a type of island) in the Pacific Ocean, near Hawaii. It is controlled by the United States Army and United States Air Force. It is a territory of the United States, part of the United States Minor Outlying Islands. From December 1941 to August 1945 the Empire of Japan ruled Wake Island. Geography [change | change source]Wake is located to the west of the International Date Line and sits in the Wake Island Time Zone, one day ahead of the 50 U.S. states. [...] - The Defense of Wake – United States Marine Corps historical monograph - Surrender of Wake by the Japanese – Marines in World War II - U.S. Army Strategic and Missile Defense Command Archived 2016-12-08 at the Wayback Machine – Logistics, flight schedules, facilities - Photographic history of the 1975 Vietnamese refugee camp on Wake Island - Wake Island travel guide from Wikivoyage - Wake Island – Pacific Wreck Database - Wake Island (1942) on IMDb - Wake Island: Alamo of the Pacific (2003) on IMDb