China tensions rising, US revives WW2-era Pacific airfield

By Agence France-Presse

Dec 31, 2023 12:05 am

Washington, United States: 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 2-era bases across the region, it won't be with Japan on their mind.

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