Midway Atoll is composed of two islets: Sand and Eastern. Midway is about 1,140 miles from Pearl Harbor, 3,100 miles from San Diego, and 2,250 miles from Tokyo. Advance elements of a marine defense battalion arrived in September 1940, and a naval air s
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