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Executive Order 8682
Establishing Naval Defensive Sea Areas Around and Naval Airspace Reservations Over the Islands of Palmyra, Johnston, Midway, Wake, and Kingman Reef; Pacific Ocean
Signed by Franklin Delano Roosevelt on Feb 14, 1941.
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