If you're into history and urban exploration, this one might have some appeal. Many people associate the island of Tinian in the North Mariana Islands as the site where the U.S. launched attacks on Japan with their B-29 bombers. It was from this island that the planes bearing the nuclear bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki took off from. But before any of that could happen, the island had to be wrestled from the control of the Japanese. That task would go to the Marines of the 2nd & 4th Divisions.

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