Word: tinian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...give again? Rich as we are, we do not have the human or physical resources to dissipate our patrimony, generation after generation, in this manner." Naval operations in World War II had indicated clearly which were the important bases. Among them: Kwajalein and Eniwetok in the Marshalls; Saipan and Tinian in the Marianas; the Palaus, and perhaps such farflung winnings as Iwo Jima and Okinawa...
...days later. It was downright miraculous that a high proportion of the Superfortresses used in the first two strikes were ready for use again at Osaka, again at Kobe, and in a repeat raid on Nagoya-all within ten days. Some of LeMay's ground crews on Saipan, Tinian and Guam, worked 48 hours nonstop to compass this miracle...
...these strikes, 300 Superforts flew from Saipan, Tinian and (for the first time) from Guam. Each carried seven to eight tons of 500-lb. clusters of new M69 incendiary bombs. Each cluster comprised scores of 6-lb. incendiary bombs containing a jelly-gasoline compound. The total: about 700,000 incendiaries...
Between the tenth and 14th days the bloody battle seesawed back & forth. The 4th Division, veterans of Kwajalein, Saipan and Tinian, has taken Hill 382 six times, has lost it five times (they will not lose it again) when Jap fire became unbearable. In spite of this the 4th edged over, around and beyond 382, and the 5th pressed forward relentlessly. Meanwhile Erskine's regiments pierced the center, nearly split northernmost...
...Guam, Tinian and Saipan can be converted into vast airfields from which U.S. bombers can sweep the whole quadrant of sea from the southern coast of China to Japan itself...