West Field &sq=albert einstein&lang=en&file=File:Twentieth_Air_Force_-_Emblem_(World_War_II).png) Gurguan Point Airfield | |
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| Part of Twentieth Air Force | |
| West Field, Tinian, 8 July 1945 | |
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| Type | Military airfield |
| Site information | |
| Controlled by | United States Army Air Forces |
| Site history | |
| Built | 1944 |
| In use | 1944–1946 |
West Field is a former World War II airfield on Tinian in the Mariana Islands. Today, West Field is used as the civilian Tinian International Airport. West Field at Tinian Naval Base was a base for Twentieth Air Force B-29 Superfortress operations against the Japanese Home Islands in 1944–45 and the base for the B-29 Superfortress 58th Bombardment Wing.