In 1978, the Navy downgraded Midway from a Naval Air Station to a Naval Air Facility and large numbers of personnel and dependents began leaving the island. With the war in Vietnam over, and with the introduction of reconnaissance satellites and nuclear submarines, Midway’s significance to U.S. national security was diminished. The World War II facilities at Sand and Eastern Islands were listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 28, 1987 and were simultaneously added as a National Historic Landmark.[11]
As part of the Base Realignment and Closure process, the Navy facility on Midway has been operationally closed since September 10, 1993, although the Navy assumed responsibility for cleaning up environmental contamination at Naval Air Facility Midway.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midway_Atoll
Thank you. I wasn’t drunk after all.
Google Map Streetview has ground level views of Midway.
I was thinking my memory was way worse than I thought, since I swear I thought I landed at Midway once, on my way to Guam in the early 1980s on a military charter flight.
IIRC, it was that flight that convinced me to never fly in anything smaller than a DC10...