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Tinian

Limestone island in the Northern Mariana Islands in the west Pacific Ocean, 5 km/3 mi southwest of Saipan; area 102 sq km/39 sq mi; population (1990) 2,110. It was the site of the US airbase North Field during World War II, for missions against Japan. Tourism and ranching are important.

Before the war the island was home to a thriving Japanese community, producing sugarcane. US forces took the island in July 1944, and created what was at that time the world's largest airbase. Among missions flown from here were the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. US, Japanese, and Korean memorials of the war period remain. The island's population is today predominantly Chamorro.
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org If you are fascinated by personal narratives from World War II, you had better put on the coffee pot, and settle down to one hell of read covering the Guadalcanal Campaign and landings at Tarawa, Saipan and Tinian islands in the battle for the Pacific Theater.
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From 1942 to 1946, he served in the Pacific Theatre in the role of beach master and coordinated landings at Kwajalein and Enewetak Atolls, Palau, Saipan and Tinian Islands.
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