Seventy-five years ago, Ed Fox was dug in on a sandy beach, with his machine gun ready to repel Japanese invaders if they reached Midway Island in the far northwestern Pacific. He watched part of the ...

Midway Atoll, North Pacific Ocean (CNN) -- The distance from humanity yawns out in front of you when you stand on the pale sands of this tiny Pacific island. Midway Atoll is just about the furthest ...

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 ...

For visitors who land on Midway, stepping off the plane 1,200 miles from the next town is like stepping back in time. Silence is broken only by the resident avian population--thousands upon thousands ...