In 1911 Glenn Curtiss ran a flying school on North Island, and one of his students was Lieutenant Theodore G. Ellyson, who became the Navy's first aviator. The island sits across San Diego Bay from...
From 1968 until 1981 the sailors of NAVFAC Midway sat at the end of a cable, listening to the Pacific for Soviet submarines. The Naval Facility was a SOSUS shore terminal, processing the sound picked...
United States Naval Air Facility Midway Military Patch - Midway was the focal point of the Battle of Midway, one of the most important battles of the Pacific Campaign in World War II. - light blue...