An abandoned US airfield in Tinian, once key to dropping the nuclear bomb on Japan, is being revived due to Beijing's growing influence in the Pacific.
In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, an abandoned US airfield once key to dropping the nuclear bomb on Japan – and nearly lost to history amid encroaching forest – is being revived. But as the Americans hack away at the jungle overgrowth at Tinian island airfield and other old, World War II-era bases across the region, it will not be with Japan on their mind.
Rather, it is Beijing’s growing influence in the Pacific that is spurring the recovery of a slew of abandoned runways on the 100 sq km speck of land that makes up Tinian, part of the US territory of the Northern Mariana Islands. “Rehabilitation of World War II-era airfields has provided Pacific Air Forces (Pacaf) a rapidly executable avenue to enhance infrastructure in the region,” a spokesman told AF
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