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Set in a secluded grove of tangan-tangan trees, the old Japanese prison on Saipan reportedly held missing aviators Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan who were reportedly captured and executed by the Japanese after their plane landed on a deserted Pacific island on July 2, 1937.

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SAIPAN, Northern Marianas Islands — The old Japanese prison, set in a grove of spindly tangan-tangan trees, lies in a secluded jungle clearing south of Garapan, the capital of this remote U.S. territory in the western Pacific about 6,000 miles from the west coast of the United States.

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