The United States takes possession of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake_Island" id="mwmA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Wake Island">Wake Island</a> in the Pacific Ocean.<sup about="#mwt73" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-13"}}' id="cite_ref-13" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./January_17#cite_note-13" id="mwmQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 13;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwmg">[13]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-13"><cite about="#mwt70" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFMoran2011">Moran, Jim (2011). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=AaO6CwAAQBAJ" id="mwCJY" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwCJc">Wake Island 1941: A Battle to Make the Gods Weep</i></a>. New York: Osprey Publishing. p.<span id="mwCJg" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>6. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwCJk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwCJo" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/9781849086035" id="mwCJs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/9781849086035"><bdi id="mwCJw">9781849086035</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt70" class="Z3988" id="mwCJ0" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Wake+Island+1941%3A+A+Battle+to+Make+the+Gods+Weep&amp;rft.place=New+York&amp;rft.pages=6&amp;rft.pub=Osprey+Publishing&amp;rft.date=2011&amp;rft.isbn=9781849086035&amp;rft.aulast=Moran&amp;rft.aufirst=Jim&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DAaO6CwAAQBAJ&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJanuary+17"></span></span>