Former airports, eaten away by urbanization or transformed into giant car parks. List of these places where planes landed. in Northern Mariana Islands.
Altitude : 25 m = 82ft
Ushi Point airport is located close to Tinian Island, Tinian Municipality at 5.7 km↑, Saipan Municipality at 9.4 km↑, Marpo Heights Hamlet at 11 km↑, As Lito Hamlet at 11 km↑, JP Tinian Town pre-WW2 at 12 km↑, Papago Hamlet at 16 km↑,
North Field was one of several bases for Twentieth Air Force Boeing B-29 Superfortress operations against the Japanese Home Islands in 1944–45. North Field contributed aircraft to the 1945 campaign to burn out Japanese cities with incendiary bombs, including the 9 March 1945 bombing of Tokyo which still stands as the most destructive air raid ever. North Field was the base for the 313th Bombardment Wing which carried out Operation Starvation, the dropping of naval mines in the harbors and sea lanes used by Japan. North Field was also the base for the 509th Composite Group which flew the atomic bombing raids on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. The incendiary campaign (which destroyed 40% of the targeted cities),[1] the aerial mining campaign (which starved Japan of essential food imports) and the two atomic attacks have all been argued as major factors in the surrender of Japan.
The longest runway measure : 1800 m = 5906ft
Data sources
- AVWX (avwx.rest)
- Aerial maps : Google Maps (www.google.com), Microsoft Bing (www.microsoft.com) ou OpenStreetMap (www.openstreetmap.org)