3rd OSS tests landing zone capabilities at home, Tinian : vi

What once was a four-strip, prepared airfield during World War II now sits overgrown and unused, with only two unimproved landing surfaces on Tinian in the Northern Mariana Islands. Now a tourist attraction, North Field is as close as Landing Zone Officers get to practicing establishing and operating a landing zone in an austere environment.

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