![]() Most remarkable to the men were the Laysan albatross that make up the world’s largest nesting colony of their kind. In June 2012, back on Midway Atoll’s Sand Island for the first time in seven decades to commemorate the anniversary of the historic fight, the men were awed by flights of a different nature: those of seabirds as they searched for food to bring to their young. planes clashed in a conflict that turned the course of World War II in the Pacific in America’s favor. They were watching for enemy aircraft and they saw them, plenty of them, during the Battle of Midway in June 1942, when Japanese bombers and U.S. Seventy years ago, when Ed Fox and John Miniclier (pictured) were 20-year-old Marines on Midway Atoll, their eyes were trained on the sky. ![]() The Service manages Papahānaumokuākea with our partners the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the State of Hawaii and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs. The Refuge and Memorial are part of Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument. Joan Jewett writes about her experience at Midway Atoll Refuge and Memorial during the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the Battle at Midway in June 2012.
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