Mariana Islands

[FinsnFur]

Where the [L] are the Mariana Islands and how come we have them on the back of quarters now?
Nobody at work knew

I was gonna look it up on Google and thought I could get a better answer here.

[Bills Custom Calls]

up to the early 20th century sometimes called Ladrones Islands, from Spanish Islas de los Ladrones meaning "Islands of Thieves")

They are south of Japan and north of New Guinea, and immediately to the east of the Philippine Sea.

Chamorro: Guåhan) is an island in the western Pacific Ocean and is an organized, unincorporated territory of the United States. It is one of five U.S. territories with an established civilian government.[3][4] The island's capital is Hagåtña (formerly Agana). Guam is the largest and southernmost of the Mariana Islands.

[Okanagan]

Lot of fighting in the Marianas in WWII.  Saipan, Tinian, Guam are among those islands, now under US protectorate or something like that.  The Great Marianas Turkey Shoot is what came to my mind, when US Navy planes shot down so many Japanese carrier planes.  I checked and it was 429 Japanese planes lost to 29 US, on June 19, 1944.  Tinian was close enough to allow US planes from there to bomb Tokyo, and that's where the atomic bomb planes were based.

I've been sick and my throat hurt so bad that I gave up on trying to sleep at 3:00 AM this morning and took some medical ice cream to soothe the pain.

[FinsnFur]

Interesssssssssssssssssting

[awh]

  I was going to say somewhere not near us in VA. First time I have ever heard of em'.

[THO Game Calls]

The worst thing that can happen to a young Marine on a TransPac flight is to fly into Guam.

The best thing that can happen to him is to fly out of it.   

They say, there is a beautiful woman behind every tree on Guam.   What they don't tell you, is there is only one tree.

[KySongDog]

Bill

You been Wikipedia-ing again.   

[Silencer]

just watch the movie Windtalkers again the other night, I think thats where it took place.

[FinsnFur]

Bill

You been Wikipedia-ing again.   

I was gonna say...that did not sound like Bill, at all. Sumbitch is using some bag ole words.