World War II Armed Forces – Orders of Battle and Organizations

Last Updated 01.05.04

United States Navy Administrative Order of Battle 14th Naval District (Hawaii) Wake Island 7 December 1941

 

Wake Island Command    Commanding Officer: Cdr. Winfield S. Cunningham (USN)

• YCK-1

Naval Air Station Wake Island (10 officers, 59 enlisted Navy personnel)    Commanding Officer: Cdr. Winfield S. Cunningham (USN)

Marine Detachment, 1st Defense Battalion, Wake Island (15 officers, 373 enlisted Marines)    Commanding Officer: MAJ James P.S. Devereux (USMC)        • A Battery (2x 5"/51 naval guns) – 1LT C.A. Barninger – Peacock Point, Wake Island        • B Battery (2x 5"/51 naval guns) – 1LT Kessler – Toki Point, Peale Island        • D Battery (4x 3"/50 anti-aircraft guns, director & heightfinder)   Toki Point, Peale Island        • E Battery (4x 3"/50 anti-aircraft guns) – 2LT R.M. Hanna – Peacock Point, Wake Island        • F Battery (4x 3"/50 anti-aircraft guns) (inactive)   Kuku Point, Wilkes Island        • L Battery (2x 5"/51 naval guns) – 2LT J.A. McAlister – Kuku Point, Wilkes Island        • Searchlight Battery (6 lights)        • Machinegun Group (18x .50cal anti-aircraft machineguns)        • Machinegun Group (30x .30cal machineguns)

Detachment Marine Fighter Squadron (VMF) 211 (12 officers, 49 enlisted Marines)       Commanding Officer: MAJ Paul A. Putnam (USMC) [reports to MAJ Devereux]       12x F4F-3

Detachment 407th Army Air Forces Signal Company (1 officer, 5 enlisted Army personnel)    Commanding Officer: CPT Henry S. Wilson (US)

Resident Officer in Charge of Construction    Mr. Nathan D. Teters    1146 CPAB (Contractors Pacific Naval Air Bases) civilian workers

Pan American Airways Station    70 civilian employees

 

Wake Atoll Location: 19°17' N, 166°36' E Island in the North Pacific Ocean, about half of the way from Hawaii to the Philippines   Maps borrowed from the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection at the University of Texas at Austin   Click here for medium map of Wake Island (134KB) Click here for very large map of Wake Island (1024KB)