The US-held Midway Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, the location of the Battle of Midway in June 1942 during the Pacific War of the Second World War (1939-45), aerial photograph taken in 1941.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the U.S. National Archives.
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