U.S. tanks plow ashore on Tinian.

U.S. tanks plow ashore on Tinian. American tanks roll ashore from landing craft off Tinian in the Marianas and drive up a beach road gouged out by a bulldozer. Only two and one half miles (four kilometers) to the southwest of recently won Saipan, the Central Pacific gives the Allies two more airfields only 1,500 miles (2,400 kilometers) from the Japanese homeland. Eight days after the American landings on July 23, 1944, the battle of Tinian neared the end as U.S. Marines compressed scattered Japanese remnants into a small area on the island's southern tip.