Aerial View of Maug Islands

ID: 556 ~ Source: Wikimedia Commons ~ Creator: Frank Trusdell, U.S. Geological Survey ~ Date: May 1992
This file appears in: Waiting for the End of the War
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Following World War II, the island came under the control of the United States and was administered as part of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. Since 1978, the island has been part of the Northern Islands Municipality of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

This file appears in: Waiting for the End of the War

By W.A. Scott III
"After the second atomic bomb was dropped, we were almost sure we were going back to the United States, and we didn't. And we ended up anchored at Enewetak group on Yap Island group on a little island called Maug Maug, which was a…