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 ...

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

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 ...