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WASHINGTON – Parts of three remote and uninhabited Pacific island chains are being set aside by President George W. Bush as national monuments to protect them from oil and gas extraction and commercial fishing in what will be the largest marine conservation effort in history.
The three areas — totaling some 195,274 square miles — include the Mariana Trench and the waters and corals surrounding three uninhabited islands in the Northern Mariana Islands, Rose Atoll in American ... Read more...
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Anther building that suvived the war and remains at Tinian's North Field. In this same opening there were also air-raid and ordinance shelters. The field is mostly overgrown with the exceprions of the main runways and claarings maintained to allow a view of some of the main buildings remaining at the site.
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The plaque denoting the loading pit for the second ever nulear weapon used in combat.
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A massive Latte Stone Pillar fallen on its side at the House of Taga. Only one of these grand anciant symbols of Chamorro culture in the Northern Marianas remains standing at the House of Taga site. Several smaller pillars remain standing wlsewhere on the islands.
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A wide view of the House of Tage site on Tinian with a flame tree adding some beautiful color in the background.
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One of the pits used to load the only ever nuclear weapons to be used in combat aboard a B-29 headed to Japan. The bombs were so large that they were lowered into the pits, the plane backed over the pit, and the bombs were hoisted up into the plane from below ground level. The pits now stand as a memorial to the bombs and their impact on the war. This is the seond of two pits that were used for this purpose on Tinian's North Field, just off of Able Runway. The other pit is also a memorial.
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Another close-up view of some of the missing pillars in the Japanese Air Administration Building t Tinian's North Field. This field was the launch-point for many fire-bombing and even nuclear missions over Japan at the end of WWII. These raids were carried out by B-29 bombers and their crews. This building was heavily damaged when the US took the island of Tinian in 1944 and lies inthe center of what then became one of the busiest airports in the world thorugh the end of the war.
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A close-up of bullet holes found in the side of the Japanese air administration building on Tinian.
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The plaque denoting the loading pit for the first ever nulear weapon used in combat.
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One of the pits used to load the only ever nuclear weapons to be used in combat aboard a B-29 headed to Japan. The bombs were so large that they were lowered into the pits, the plane backed over the pit, and the bombs were hoisted up into the plane from below ground level. The pits now stand as a memorial to the bombs and their impact on the war. This is one of two pits that were used for this purpose on Tinian's North Field, just off of Able Runway. The other pit is also a memorial.
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One of the pits used to load the only ever nuclear weapons to be used in combat aboard a B-29 headed to Japan. The bombs were so large that they were lowered into the pits, the plane backed over the pit, and the bombs were hoisted up into the plane from below ground level. The pits now stand as a memorial to the bombs and their impact on the war. This is one of two pits that were used for this purpose on Tinian's North Field, just off of Able Runway. The other pit is also a memorial.
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Me standing beside the last standing pillar of the "House of Taga", a latte stone formation found in Tinian in the Northern Mariana Islands. My 6'0" frame is diminished by the sheer size of the anciant structure.
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A close-up view of some of the missing pillars in the Japanese Air Administration Building t Tinian's North Field. This field was the launch-point for many fire-bombing and even nuclear missions over Japan at the end of WWII. These raids were carried out by B-29 bombers and their crews. This building was heavily damaged when the US took the island of Tinian in 1944 and lies inthe center of what then became one of the busiest airports in the world thorugh the end of the war.
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Sign warning of unexpoded ordinance in the area. The sign lies just off of Tinian's North Field, home of Able Runway, the lauching pad for the fire-bombing and nuclear attacks on Japan at the end of World War II. Unexploaded ordinance from the war does still show up in he Northern Mariana Islands. It is estimate that up to 10% of all shells from the intense naval bombardments of the islands failed to detonate.
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A tree grows upa round the back side of the Japanese air administration building on Tinian's North Field. Most of what was for at least a part of WWII the world's busiest airbase has been reclaimed by the jungle.
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