They operated from bases in Saipan, Guam, and Tinian in the Mariana Islands captured during the island-hopping campaign. The ...

Following its seizure, the U.S. Navy's Seabees transformed Tinian into the largest airbase of the war, with six long runways, hardstands for hundreds of B-29 bombers, and a layout modeled after ...

Within a year of the Battle of Tinian, the airfield became a launching point for B-29 bombers targeting Imperial Japan, including the Enola Gay, which dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August ...

References to a World War II Medal of Honor recipient, the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan and women ...

What happened on 6 August 1945? In the small hours of a warm summer day, the B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay flew from a US base on Tinian over the Japanese mainland. In the hold was an experimental ...