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	Tinian Landing Beaches, Ushi Point and North Fields, Tinian Islands -- Aviation: From Sand Dunes to Sonic Booms: A ...
		The capture of Tinian, one of the Marianas Islands, in the summer of 1944 from Imperial Japan by U.S Marines provided American forces with a valuable airstrip from which to mount raids on Japan; ultimately, the islands served as the base from which the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were staged.
		The U.S. Marines' assault on Tinian was considered to be Phase III of Operation FORAGER which began with the capture of Saipan (Phase I) and the battle for the liberation of Guam (Phase II) which was raging even as the Marines approached Tinian.
		Tinian is one of the four major islands in the Mariana chain, and is 45 minutes by airplane from Guam.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/aviation/tin.htm (892 words)

	Travel: Return to Tinian
		Tinian is the island from which the atomic bombs were flown, and we were traveling to see Tibbets speak at Tinian's North Field airstrip.
		Saipan and Tinian, which are close to Guam in the Northern Mariana Islands but far from everywhere else, were home to two of the Pacific theater's shortest but bloodiest battles.
		Recognizing that Tinian is roughly the size and shape of the island of Manhattan, the Seabees who built Tinian's roads in 1944 laid them out to mirror some in Manhattan.
	www.sptimes.com /2004/12/12/Travel/Return_to_Tinian.shtml (1601 words)

	Battle of Tinian - Wikimedia Commons
		English: The battle of Tinian was a battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II, fought on the island of Tinian in the Mariana Islands from 24 July 1944 to 1 August 1944.
		Marines assist Japanese emerging from cave fortifications in the cliffs of Tinian.
		A badly battered Japanese plane, wrecked before it could be wheeled from its hangar at the Tinian airfield, forms a foreground atmosphere for a TAG plane of the Fourth Marines air wing.
	commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Tinian (337 words)

	Harlan Sr. Semper Fi
		The Battle of Saipan began with naval bombardment of the island on June 13, 1944; Marines began landing on the island two days later.
		The Japanese, with no hope of resupply due to the defeat of their Navy in the Battle of the Philippean Sea, were determined to fight to the last man. The battle ended on July 9, with 29,000 Japanese dead, 5,000 of which were suicides.
		Tinian was another island in the Marianas, and the next logical step in the progression towards Tokyo.
	www.molgen.mpg.de /~spang/christina/harlansr2.htm (1376 words)

	HyperWar: USMC Operations in WWII: Vol III--Central Pacific Drive [Chapter V-1]
		American photographic reconnaissance of Tinian, begun on a carrier strike of 22-23 February 1944, focused on the airfields, though not to the neglect of the rest of the island.
		Detailed planning for Tinian had to yield precedence to that for Saipan and Guam, but once the end of the Saipan campaign was in sight, NTLF headquarters began daily conferences regarding the assault on the nearby target.
		Tinian received a more thorough going over than most other island objectives of the Pacific war, chiefly because the usual naval and air bombardment was augmented for weeks by the fires of artillery.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USMC/III/USMC-III-V-1.html (9959 words)

	INVASION OF TINIAN
		Tinian is twelve miles long, two-thirds the size of Saipan, and lies 3 miles off the southern tip of Saipan.
		Tinian's unusually flat, rolling terrain was favorable to a rapid advance by infantry and tanks, and the disorganized Japanese did not manage to solidify a defense line.
		The relatively mild nine-day battle for Tinian cost the Marine Corps infantry and Army artillery units 328 killed and 1,571 wounded.
	www.olive-drab.com /od_history_ww2_ops_battles_1944marianas_tinian.php (559 words)

	Battle of Saipan - The Final Curtain, David Moore
		The Marianas islands of Saipan, Tinian and Guam were indispensable bastions in the defense of the Japanese home land, and Admiral Nagumo admitted this just the day before the Marines landed to execute Operation Forager.
		In preparation for the next assault on the island of Tinian, the Marines requested the Seabees to build a special ramp that could scale the 8 foot cliffs along the shore of the Tinian beachhead, It was to be used to make an 'end run' and surprise the Japanese holding the beach.
		See The Battle of Saipan - 1944 for photos showing what it was like as a Seabee loading barges with gasoline and ammunition during the battle.
	www.battleofsaipan.com /seabee.htm (5673 words)

	60th Anniversary of the World War II Battles of Saipan and Tinian
		Tinian had been subjected to almost-daily aerial bombardment from U.S. warships and planes since the landing on Saipan the previous month; but with the official end of the Battle for Saipan in July, battalions of howitzer guns were put into place on the southern shores of the island and trained on Tinian targets.
		When the battle for Saipan ended, with the help of some American soldiers a search for the body was made in the area where she had died, but it was never found.
		In this, the 60th anniversary year of the Battle for Saipan and of the formation of this group of men, it is fitting that their story be told for all to hear.
	net.saipan.com /cftemplates/amp60th/index.cfm?pageID=20 (19656 words)

	Battle of Tinian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The battle of Tinian was a battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II, fought on the island of Tinian in the Mariana Islands from 24 July 1944 to 1 August 1944.
		The gentler terrain of Tinian allowed the attackers more effective use of tanks and artillery than in the mountains of Saipan, and the island was secured in only nine days of fighting.
		The battle of Tinian saw the first use of napalm in the Pacific.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Tinian (402 words)

	Tinian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tinian is one of the three principal islands of the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands (14°59’51”N, 145°37’39”E).
		Tinian is about 5 miles (8km) southwest of its sister island, Saipan.
		Tinian has two gas stations and a Casino, The Dynasty, which includes a luxury hotel, shops and restaraunts and is adjacent to Chogna beach and Taga Beach.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tinian (721 words)

	USN Ships--USS South Dakota (BB-57)
		She was commissioned in March 1942 and in August was transferred to the Pacific where she was soon involved in the Guadalcanal Campaign.
		On 26 October1942, her anti-aircraft guns played a prominent role in the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, during which her forward sixteen-inch gun turret was hit by a Japanese bomb.
		In the Battle of the Philippine Sea on 19 June, she was hit by another Japanese bomb.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-usn/usnsh-s/bb57.htm (919 words)

	HyperWar: USMC Monograph--The Seizure of Tinian
		Evacuation from Tinian to Saipan was unique in that in spite of only a three mile channel separating the two islands, it became necessary to depend almost entirely upon air evacuation across the channel as the result of an unpredicted swell resulting from a nearby typhoon.
		Capture of Tinian was important for another reason: the island's vast plains, on which the Japanese had built or were building four airfields, offered space for construction of almost as many additional strips as desired.
		Tinian was one of the three essential parts of the Marianas strategic objective, an objective from which the U. could control sea areas farther west in the Pacific and, more important, strike telling blows at the home islands of the Japanese Empire.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USMC/USMC-M-Tinian/USMC-M-Tinian-5.html (10096 words)

	World War II Saipan and Tinian Battles Congressional Medal of Honor Recipients
		The Battle of Saipan was one of the bloodiest confrontations in the Pacific theater.
		Neighboring Tinian was invaded on the 24th of July and was secured by 1 August after only nine days of intense fighting.
		The indigenous population of Saipan and Tinian has come a long way from the hardships suffered during the war and the indelible imprint of centuries of colonization to reclaim their "paradise lost".
	www.medalofhonor.com /WorldWarIISaipan_Tinian.htm (2553 words)

	Stories from WWII
		July 24, 1944-August 1, 1944 participated in battle of Tinian Island, Marianas Islands against Japanese forces.
		He then was part of 2nd Marines, April 13, 1945- July 21, 1945 he participated in active operations against enemy of US at Okinawa Shima, Ryukyu Islands as an element of the X Army.
		Battles were participated in the capture and defense of Guadalcanal and in action against the Japanese on Saipan, Tinian, Okinawa and in the Occupation of Japan.
	www.hbo.com /apps/band/site/client/stories/curated_story.jsp?exid=911 (600 words)

	WW2DB: Marianas and the Great Turkey Shoot
		By 5 Jul, despite the bitter political battles that ensued, the remaining Japanese troops were driven to the northern tip of the island.
		Tinian made weapons history as it was where the first napalm bomb was used, and where the Fat Man and Little Boy would be loaded onto bombers for Hiroshima and Nagasaki a year after this battle.
		Tinian was secured on 2 Aug after more than a week of heavy fighting, however many Japanese soldiers hid in the jungles and outlying small islands, such as Lieuitenant Kinichi Yamada's small garrison on Aguijian island who did not surrender until 4 Sep 1944.
	ww2db.com /battle_spec.php?battle_id=10 (3183 words)

	1st Battalion - 68th Armor Regiment
		No words can convey the fury of the battle, but men of the 4th Marine Division who were there that day would remember the smoking wrecks of the LVT's, charred and blasted pillboxes, dead Japanese and American bodies, and the reek of high explosives in the air.
		Victory in the night battles had been complete; it was here that the 4th Marine division and attached 773rd Amphibian Tractor Battalion with its tanks, broke Japanese Pack in the battle for Tinian.
		The 773rd Amphibian Tractor Battalion fought in the Philippines and in the battle for Okinawa and Ryukus.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/army/1-68ar.htm (1735 words)

	Operatioin Stateside
		At the end of the battle of Saipan, as many as thirteen battalions of 105mm and 155mm howitzers guns were set up on the southern shores of the island, and massed fire was brought to bear against targets on Tinian.
		Indeed, the Japanese counterattack, for all practical purposes, was the battle of Tinian.
		For outstanding performance in combat during the seizure of the Japanese-held islands of Saipan and Tinian in the Marianas from June 15 to August 1, 1944.
	www.fightingfourth.com /tinian.htm (4183 words)

	Relief
		Her usual employment schedule was interrupted 1 July 1925 when she sailed from Pearl Harbor to join the Battle Fleet as it made its good will practice cruise via the Samoan Islands to Australia and New Zealand.
		On the east side of Carlson Island in Kwajalein Lagoon, she received battle casualities [sic; casualties] transported by small boat directly from the islands under attack.
		The next morning she was steaming for the Marianas to receive 400 casualties from the battle for Tinian Island.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/r4/relief-vi.htm (1891 words)

	Beatrice Daily Sun
		The Saipan VFW post minted the medallions in 2004 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Saipan battle and fighting on the nearby island of Tinian.
		That battle of Saipan, which raged from June 15 to July 9, 1944, cost the lives of nearly 8,000 Marines and Army soldiers.
		Officials from Saipan, the largest of the Mariana Islands, said the medallions marking the 60th anniversary of the bloody, four-week long Battle of Saipan are still available.
	www.beatricedailysun.com /articles/2006/08/09/news/news2.txt (500 words)

	Tarawa on the Web
		The maps have all the situation markings on them, as the battle unfolded, and our victory was as yet uncertain.
		My father was in the Navy in WWII stationed with the 2nd marine division as a pharmacists mate (he callled it a corpsman) He is dead now 13 years.
		My mom told me he was wounded in the battle of Tarawa, she is pretty sure of this.
	www.tarawaontheweb.org /write.htm (976 words)

	Haskell Free Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Upon our arrival there we pulled in between the battle wagons and the beach and let the Jap pillboxes have it.
		At the time of the battle of Saipan we had no idea of the part that the air strips there would play, but after reading the accounts concerning the operations of the B-29;s we feel proud of our part in the taking of the island."
		We were in the edge of this battle and watched a couple of the Nip ships head for Davy Jones’s locker.
	usspatterson.tk-jk.net /haskell.htm (742 words)

	4th Marine Division WWII Al Perry's Web Page
		The severity of this battle was indicated by the 2,000 casualties suffered in the first two days of battle.
		The land assault on Tinian had cost the Division 290 men killed, 1,515 wounded and 24 missing in action.
		The Division suffered a total of 17,722 battle casualties during the four assault landings on Roi-Namur, Saipan, Tinian and Iwo Jima.
	mysite.verizon.net /res71z3x (490 words)

	Newspapers from coast to coast have acclaimed our Group as the
		They worked so close to the fluctuating battle line that empty brass cartridges from their guns showered down on the heads of American troops.
		On the afternoon of July 23rd, men crowded on top of the old block house or perched on rod earth bunkers to watch the group's P-47's bomb Tinian with wing and belly tanks which, for the first time in the war, were filled with the new mixture called Napalm.
		From the same vantage points they saw Marines pour ashore for the July 24-31 battle of Tinian, their assault boats guided to the landing beach by low-flying Thunderbolts of the 318th.
	www.web-birds.com /7th/318/318_history.htm (4248 words)

	In a darkened theater, two old Marines relive Iwo Jima - Marine Corps Community for USMC Veterans
		Tsaffaras and Tsapatsaris are veterans of Iwo Jima, the costly 36-day battle that took a rocky but strategically important island, shaped like a pork chop, about the size of Manhattan.
		Flags of Our Fathers depicts the Battle of Iwo Jima, and the famous picture by Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal of six Marines raising the American flag on Mount Suribachi five days into the battle.
		It is the story of the complexity of heroics and the way men go into battle for their country, but fight for one another.
	www.leatherneck.com /forums/showthread.php?t=36940 (1274 words)

	"The Battle For Tinian"; World War II Virtual Museum, American Memorial Park, Saipan
		The Island of Tinian, only 3 miles away from Saipan across an ocean channel, was invaded by the U.S. Marine Corps on July 24, 1944, three days after U.S. Forces invaded Guam (150 miles to the south of Saipan).
		The invasion force feinted an invasion at the beach in San Jose Village, in the center of Tinian.
		But as the landing craft approached Tinian from the north, those craft at the rear of the landing force split off and made a surprise real landing at this beach on the northwest side of Tinian island.
	www.nps.gov /amme/wwii_museum/battle_for_tinian/battle_for_tinian.html (157 words)

	GuestBook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In particular, an aerial photograph, the show inferred the picture was taken during the battle, distinctly outlines the reefs and the boats stuck on the edge of the reefs.
		USMC policy is actually known to have failed in regards to containment of germ ordinance on at least one occasion, reference the little known blip in illness casualties during the battle of Tinian - case reviews suggest germ ordinance exposure and life ong afflictions in these veterans of Tinian...
		Criticism of those who chose the day of battle coincidental with the nadir of 3 different tides will be put to rest: terror attacks were days away.
	www.tarawaontheweb.org /geobook.html (5973 words)

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