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North Field is a World War II airfield on Tinian in the Mariana Islands.Abandoned after the war, today North Field is a tourist attraction. Along with several adjacent beaches on which U.S. Marines landed during the Battle of Tinian, the airfield is the major component of the National Historic Landmark District Tinian Landing Beaches, Ushi Point Field, Tinian Island.
The airport was established on the site of the World War II era West Field.. Tinian International Airport covers an area of 1,416 acres (573 ha) which contains one paved runway (8/26) measuring 8,600 x 150 ft (2,621 x 46 m).
Tinian Island in 1945: the vast North Field airfield is in the foreground with West Field beyond; the rest of the island is filled with barracks, buildings, and hangars. The task would have been easier if the plateau had been wider. As it was, the 7,000-foot (2,100 m) wide plateau required large amounts of fill.
West Field is a former World War II airfield on Tinian in the Mariana Islands.Today, West Field is used as the civilian Tinian International Airport.West Field at Tinian Naval Base was a base for Twentieth Air Force B-29 Superfortress operations against the Japanese Home Islands in 1944–45 and the base for the B-29 Superfortress 58th Bombardment Wing.
During the relentless bombing of Japan in 1945, North Field on Tinian, with its four 8,000-foot runways and 40,000 personnel, became the largest and busiest airport in the world.
Topographic map of the island of Tinian, showing buildings as of 1999. Tinian is about 5 nautical miles (9.3 km) southwest of Saipan, from which it is separated by the Saipan Channel. It has a land area of 39 square miles (100 km 2), with its highest elevation on the Kastiyu plateau at 187 meters (614 ft). It is considerably flatter than Saipan.
Saipan International Airport (Francisco C. Ada) P-N 595,181 Tinian Island: TNI TIQ: PGWT Tinian International Airport (West Tinian) P-N 38,664 Commercial service – nonprimary airports: Rota Island: GRO ROP: PGRO Rota International Airport: CS 11,625 General aviation airports: Shomu-Shon, Pagan Island: TT01 Pagan Airstrip: GA 0 Former military ...
English: Map of the US-led invasion of the island of Tinian in the Northern Mariana Islands, constituting the en:Battle of Tinian (Battle of Tinian) in 1944. Most of the map taken from File:Battle_of_Tinian_map.jpg, a work of the US Department of Defense. Additional details from: Richard Harwood.