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Wake Island evacuates as super typhoon bears down

WAKE ISLAND -- A Hickam Air Force Base C-17 Globemaster cargo jet belonging to the 535th Airlift Squadron prepared to leave the tarmac at Wake Island yesterday after 104 people strapped in for the four-hour flight to Hawaii. The operation took 188 residents to safety as Super Typhoon Ioke approached (Photo by Gregg K. Kakesako)

PHOTO BY: Gregg K. Kakesako
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