{"id":11125,"date":"2021-01-14T02:00:02","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T07:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/readerslibrary.org\/?p=11125"},"modified":"2022-12-21T06:17:02","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T11:17:02","slug":"a-close-encounter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/readerslibrary.org\/?p=11125","title":{"rendered":"A Close Encounter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/readerslibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/A-Close-Encounter-1.pdf\">A Close Encounter<\/a><\/strong>, by Richard Harwood &#8211;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Marine Landing on Tinian<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Published: 1994<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Marine Corps Historical Center<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Maps:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11127 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/readerslibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tinian1-Marianas-Islands.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"655\" srcset=\"https:\/\/readerslibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tinian1-Marianas-Islands.jpg 320w, https:\/\/readerslibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tinian1-Marianas-Islands-147x300.jpg 147w, https:\/\/readerslibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tinian1-Marianas-Islands-73x150.jpg 73w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11128\" src=\"https:\/\/readerslibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tinian2-and-Southern-Saipan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/readerslibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tinian2-and-Southern-Saipan.jpg 500w, https:\/\/readerslibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tinian2-and-Southern-Saipan-234x300.jpg 234w, https:\/\/readerslibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tinian2-and-Southern-Saipan-117x150.jpg 117w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11129\" src=\"https:\/\/readerslibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tinian3-Plans-for-Landing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"543\" srcset=\"https:\/\/readerslibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tinian3-Plans-for-Landing.jpg 500w, https:\/\/readerslibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tinian3-Plans-for-Landing-276x300.jpg 276w, https:\/\/readerslibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tinian3-Plans-for-Landing-138x150.jpg 138w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11130\" src=\"https:\/\/readerslibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tinian4-Fire-Support-Sectors.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/readerslibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tinian4-Fire-Support-Sectors.jpg 558w, https:\/\/readerslibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tinian4-Fire-Support-Sectors-267x300.jpg 267w, https:\/\/readerslibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tinian4-Fire-Support-Sectors-133x150.jpg 133w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11131\" src=\"https:\/\/readerslibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tinian5-North.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/readerslibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tinian5-North.jpg 540w, https:\/\/readerslibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tinian5-North-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/readerslibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tinian5-North-151x121.jpg 151w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11132\" src=\"https:\/\/readerslibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tinian6-South.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"694\" srcset=\"https:\/\/readerslibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tinian6-South.jpg 540w, https:\/\/readerslibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tinian6-South-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/readerslibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tinian6-South-117x150.jpg 117w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Close Encounter, by Richard Harwood &#8211; The Marine Landing on Tinian Published: 1994 Marine Corps Historical Center<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[44,4922,2937,4517],"class_list":["post-11125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical","tag-a-close-encounter","tag-marine-corps-historical-center","tag-richard-harwood","tag-tinian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/readerslibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/readerslibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/readerslibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readerslibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readerslibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/readerslibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/readerslibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readerslibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readerslibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}