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  1. Photos Taken in Tinian | World War II Database - WW2DB

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    Under Japanese administration, Tinian was largely a sugar plantation. In 1939, large-scale military construction began on Tinian by the Japanese military, with 1,200 prisoners sent to the island from Japan for the construction of airfields as part of the defense of the Mariana Islands.
    Bombers from Tinian took part in the bombing of Tokyo in March 1945 and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. After World War I, the United States had developed a series of contingency plans for the event of a war with Japan known as the Orange plans.
    Marines bathe a Tinian girl after she and her family had been removed from a hillside dugout. On 6 August, Brigadier General Merrit A. Edson, the deputy commander of the 2nd Marine Division, assumed tactical responsibility as commander of Ground Forces Tinian.
  3. Walking the path of the atomic bomb at Tinian’s North Field