The end of July marked the 80th anniversary of the invasion of Tinian, completing the campaign to capture the Marianas Islands during Operation FORAGER. Seizure of the Marianas Islands enabled a ...

On July 24, 1944, Marines to the north of Guam landed on two narrow beaches on Tinian, an effort described by Marine Lt. Gen. Holland M. Smith as "the perfect amphibious operation in the Pacific War." ...

Japanese troops will finally return to Tinian this month to train alongside US marines, 67 years after soldiers from the two nations fought each other to gain control of the Pacific island, from where ...

“You know that whole place used to be sugarcane,” says Quazi, my cab driver from Bangladesh, who has lived in Saipan, the largest of the Northern Mariana Islands for over 35 years. He’s driving me to ...