July 17, 2025

Island Snapshots – June 2021

MARCHING TO KASTIYU PLATEAU-U.S. Marines march up to the historic Kastiyu Plateau on Tinian to participate in the Memorial Day rites last Monday, May 31, 2021. In the process of capturing Tinian, which lasted from July 31 to Aug. 1, 1944, 389 U.S. Marine Corps officers and men were killed and 1,816 were wounded; over 5,000 Japanese soldiers were killed. (GUNNY SERGEANT DAVID STILLWELL)

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