What once was a four-strip, prepared airfield during World War II now sits overgrown and unused, with only two unimproved landing surfaces on Tinian in the Northern Mariana Islands. Now a tourist attraction, North Field is as close as Landing Zone Officers get to practicing establishing and operating a landing zone in an austere environment.
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska What once was a four-strip, prepared airfield during World War II now sits overgrown and unused, with only two unimproved landing surfaces at Tinian, Northern Mariana Islands. Now a tourist attraction, North Field,