[YouTube] The U.S. military is developing an alternative air base just 100 miles north of the strategically important Andersen Air Force Base on Guam, located on the island of Tinian.
The massive airfield in the northern part of Tinian, known as North Field, is well known as the base from which the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were loaded during the final stages of World War II.
If Andersen Air Force Base were rendered inoperable by enemy attacks, this airfield would be capable of receiving diverted aircraft formations and launching combat operations.
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