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Pages: 240
Authors: Nathan N. Prefer
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-04-04 - Publisher: Casemate

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In July 1944, the 9,000-man Japanese garrison on the island of Tinian listened warily as the thunder of the United States Navy and Marine Corps, Army and Air Co
The Battle of Tinian
Language: en
Pages: 236
Authors: John Grehan
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-05-30 - Publisher: Frontline Books

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At 02.45 hours on the morning of 6 August 1945, a Boeing B-29 Superfortress, named after the pilot’s mother, Enola Gay, lifted off from a tiny island deep in
A Close Encounter: The Marine Landing on Tinian
Language: en
Pages: 127
Authors: Richard Harwood
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-05-29 - Publisher: DigiCat

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This book is the account of the Battle of Tinian. It was a battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II, fought on the island of Tinian in the Mariana Islands
D-Day in the Pacific
Language: en
Pages: 297
Authors: Harold J. Goldberg
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-05-02 - Publisher: Indiana University Press

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“The narrative moves smoothly and crisply. There is effective treatment of strategy, preparations, and then the invasion and battle for Saipan itself.” —S
Saipan & Tinian 1944
Language: en
Pages: 233
Authors: Gordon L. Rottman
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-01-20 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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The 1944 invasion of Saipan was the first two-division amphibious assault conducted by US forces in World War II. Saipan and Tinian had been under Japanese cont