[CPEO-MEF] GLOBAL: "Marianas Islands and the Air Force"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Marianas Islands and the Air Force

By Rick Perez
Saipan Tribune (CNMI)
December 15 2021

Our Chamorro Pacific Islander civilization has been heavily influenced by all aspects of the American armed forces for many years for many reasons. The Mariana Islands have been and continue to be connected at the hip to U.S. naval and air force activity during both wartime and in peace.

Guam may be the only place on planet Earth where the Navy has had free military-led dictatorial government reign on an entire Pacific Islander civilization that lasted for decades. Tinian is the only place on planet Earth where the sole atomic bombing air attack operation series were launched against Japan by the United States, that resulted in massive devastation, creating the conditions that led to the end of World War II. 

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For the entire article, see
https://www.saipantribune.com/index.php/357648/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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