During WWII — just six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor — Japanese warplanes attacked the Midway Atoll, a tiny group of islands about 1,300 miles northwest of Honolulu and roughly halfway ...

1785 - The order is given to sell the last ship remaining in the Continental Navy, the frigate Alliance. No other Navy ships are authorized until 1794. 1898 - During the Spanish-American War, the ...

MIDWAY ISLANDS (KGO) -- A National Geographic photographer joined President Obama for a snorkeling adventure of the Pacific Ocean in the Midway Islands a few months ago. The outgoing president has ...

President Barack Obama ventured to the tiny Pacific speck of Midway Atoll on Thursday, taking in the newly expanded wildlife refuge in an attempt to burnish his environmental legacy. It’s a remote ...

Reporting from midway atoll — The Battle of Midway was a major turning point in World War II’s Pacific theater. The remote atoll where thousands died is now a fragile sanctuary for millions of ...

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President Obama visited one of the USA's most remote island territories Thursday to tout his conservation record and highlight the threat that climate change poses to Pacific islands. Standing on a ...

It’s not every day that there are more people on board Air Force One than in the place it touches down, but Thursday was one of those occasions. Barack Obama landed on the remote Pacific island of ...

President Obama stood in front of crystal blue Pacific waters opening up to a pristine natural beach in the Midway Atoll as part of his continued push to highlight the perils of climate change and a ...

Like tiny pearls floating in a vast sea, the tiny islands and atolls of the North Pacific Ocean can be difficult to view from space as they sit in the deep blue expanse of the North Pacific Ocean. In ...