1) Island 2) Major Mariana 3) Northern marianas capital 4) One of the marianas
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island, one of the Mariana Islands, part of the Northern Mariana Islands, a commonwealth of the United States, in the western Pacific Ocean. Saipan ... [2 related articles]
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Island of the Marianas group about 1,900 km/1,200 mi north of New Guinea. It was occupied by the Japanese in World War II and when US troops recaptured it June 1944, several hundred Japanese...
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The USS Saipan was an American light fleet aircraft carrier of 14500 tons displacement launched in 1945. The USS Saipan was powered by Babcock and Wilcox boilers providing a top speed of 33 knots. She carried a complement of 1500 and 48 aircraft. She was armed with four 5 inch guns; forty 40 mm anti-aircraft guns and twenty-five 20 mm anti-aircraft...
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[
n] - an island in the southern Mariana Islands that is the administrative center of the United States Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands 2. [n] - US forces captured the island from the Japanese in July 1944
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noun US forces captured the island from the Japanese in July 1944; it was an important air base until the end of World War II
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