Talk:Battle of Tinian

US Commander

The link for the American commander leads to a different individual of the same name.

Link removed. 11/7/04

Image

See discussion in Talk:Battle of Guam about problems with the image using the classic skin. I've added a floatright table to fix the problem, but please let me know if you object, or there is an approved format or something. -- ALoan (Talk) 11:20, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Island hopping

Island hopping did not bypass islands of no threat, with negligible forces. Rabaul was a strongpoint, but it was bypassed. It was also left as a sort of training ground for new pilots, to give them early battle experience. Other islands that were bypassed were a threat until Japanese shipping took losses from US submarines, at which point none of the bypassed islands were a threat, in a sense. Binksternet (talk) 15:15, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

The section can be improved. The strategy seems actually to have involved concentrating "on strategically important islands that were not well defended". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.189.103.145 (talk) 15:12, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

File:Map of the Battle of Tinian (1944).svg

Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that File:Map of the Battle of Tinian (1944).svg will be appearing as picture of the day on July 24, 2014. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2014-07-24. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. Thanks! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:31, 6 July 2014 (UTC)

Picture of the day

A map of the U.S. invasion of Tinian, one of the Northern Mariana Islands, during World War II. The 4th Marine Division landed first, on the northern end of the island on 24 July 1944, while the USS Colorado and USS Norman Scott led a diversion with a feint against Tinian Town. The 2nd Marine Division arrived the following day, and the Marines worked their way south as Japanese soldiers fought by night and retreated by day. On 31 July the Japanese led a final suicide charge, and some continued to hold out well after the Americans declared victory. The Americans suffered 1,899 casualties, including 328 killed, while the Japanese lost 8,010 men – more than 90% of their original strength.Map: Grandiose

Interred or interned?

This article uses the word interred when I suspect it should be interned. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.62.95.56 (talk) 09:05, 24 July 2014 (UTC)