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 ...

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

HUDSON — Donald Dacier, the last living member of the so-called "Ready Teddy" flight crew, a B-29 bomber that flew dozens of ...

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 ...