East Field (also known as Kagman Airfield) is a former World War II airfield on Saipan in the Mariana Islands, part of Naval Advance Base Saipan. Saipan...
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Australia). Saipan International Airport was a sugarcane field before the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service (IJNAS) constructed a temporary landing field on the...
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The Battle of Saipan was an amphibious assault launched by the United States against the Empire of Japan during the Pacific campaign of World War II between...
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Training Unit. Saipan airfields built and/or repaired by Seabees: East Field (Saipan) (Kagman Field) built by 51st CB Aslito Field, now Saipan International...
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East Field may refer to: East Field Stadium East Field (Saipan) East Field Airport now Brown Field Municipal Airport Giza East Field Strother Army Airfield...
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Saipan (/saɪˈpæn/) is the largest island and capital of the Northern Mariana Islands, a Territory of the United States in the western Pacific Ocean. According...
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Kobler Field is a former a World War II airfield on Saipan in the Mariana Islands, part of Naval Advance Base Saipan. It was closed in 1977 and redeveloped...
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Marpi Point Field or NAB Marpi Point is a former World War II airfield at the northern end of Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands. The airfield was...
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fatalities. The squadron was then stationed aboard the USS Natoma Bay, off Saipan. Upon arriving, the 19th flew night and day missions, strafing and using...
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Northrop P-61A Black Widow, serial 42-5598 "Sleepy Time Gal". Taken on East Field, Saipan, Mariana Islands, September 1944. Citations Haulman, Daniel L. (26...
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Tinian, Northern Mariana Islands (section West Field)
village is San Jose. Tinian is just south of the most inhabited island Saipan, but north of the populated Rota to the south. The island is home to many...
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P-61s in September 1944 at Hickam Field, Hawaii Territory. Deployed to Central Pacific, December 1944. Operated in Saipan, Iwo Jima, Okinawa. Inactivated...
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abandoned) Central Field (Iwo Jima) (CBs 31,62, 133) Daniel Z. Romualdez Airport (88th CB) Dulag Airfield (61st CB) East Field (Saipan) (51st CB) The airfield...
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Black Widow Hickam Field, Hawaii (Territory), 15 October 1942 Bellows Field, Hawaii (Territory), 9 February 1943 East Field, Saipan, Mariana Islands, June...
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Advance Base Saipan, included East Field (Saipan), Aslito Field and Marpi Point Field, seaplane base, hospital, depot (Battle of Saipan) Naval Base Perth...
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Northern Mariana Islands (category Spanish East Indies)
Farallon de Medinilla Saipan Mañagaha (small island West of Saipan) Bird Island (Partially connected island on East of Saipan) Forbidden Island (Partially...
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AAFld, MS, c. 3 Jun 1943-17 Jan 1944; Hickam Field, TH, 21 Feb 1944; Abemama Island, 27 Mar 1944; Saipan, 4 Aug 1944; Guam, Jul-15 Oct 1946. The squadron...
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at the start of 1944, to Kwajalein Airfield in March 1944 and to East Field, Saipan in the Mariana Islands in August 1944. During this period the squadron...
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(1952) 819th Bombardment Squadron East Field, Saipan B-24 Inactivated 1945 820th Bombardment Squadron (Heavy) Makin Field B-25 Inactivated 1946 822d Bombardment...
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team from Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands. The top 4 had all failed to meet the new rule requirements and were disqualified. The team from Saipan went 1–2...
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American amphibious forces. In August 1944, the squadron moved to East Field (Saipan) in the Mariana Islands. During the next six months, the 38th conducted...
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Shafter, Hawaii, 1 November 1940 Hickam Field (later, Hickam AFB), Hawaii, c. 12 July 1941 East Field, Saipan, Mariana Islands, 19 December 1944 Yontan...
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Roy Keane (redirect from Keane affair (The Saipan Incident))
immediate flight home at such short notice, meaning that he remained in Saipan for another night, but they called up Colin Healy as a replacement for him...
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Airfield, Kwajalein, Marshall Islands, 30 June 1944 – 24 September 1944, East Field (Saipan), Mariana Islands, 11 July 1944 – May 1945. Peleliu Airfield, Peleliu...
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neutralized during the U.S. attack on the Marianas; also bombed Wake, Guam, and Saipan. From August 1944 until the U.S. took Iwo Jima in early 1945, the group...
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of napalm. On Saipan the squadron was attacked by Japanese ground forces in June 1944 on Aslito Airfield soon renamed Isley Field, Saipan, sustaining modest...
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weeks, it was deployed to East Field, Saipan in late February 1945 to provide night interceptor coverage of the new bases on Saipan and Guam for the Twentieth...
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F-15C/D Eagle. The squadron was first established in August 1942 at Bellows Field, Hawaii Territory as the 333d Fighter Squadron. It was initially part of...
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Islands, 17 March 1944 East Field (Saipan), Mariana Islands, 4 August 1944 Kipapa Airfield, Hawaii Territory, 18 March 1945 Kahuku Field, Hawaii Territory...
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Philippines. It was inactivated on 27 January 1946. Activated at March Field, California in early 1941 as part of the prewar mobilization of the Army...
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