North Field was one of several bases for Twentieth Air Force Boeing B-29 Superfortress operations against the Japanese Home Islands in 1944–45. North Field contributed aircraft to the 1945 campaign to burn out Japanese cities with incendiary bombs, including the 9 March 1945 bombing of Tokyo which still stands as the most destructive air raid ever.

2015年4月9日 · In a few weeks, fifteen thousand Seabees turned Tinian into the busiest airfield of the war; they built six 7,900-foot runways for the United States Army Air Forces B-29 Superfortress bombers. These would be used attacking enemy targets in the Ryukyu Islands, the Philippines, and mainland Japan.

6th Bomb Group B-29s and crews first landed on Tinian Island in January 1945, just five months after the Marianas Islands had been captured from Japan by divisions of the U.S. Army and Marines. The Navy SeaBees had built a single usable 8500 foot runway on North Field made of crushed coral for B-29 arrivals.

2024年9月17日 · After the Allies captured Tinian in 1944, the Navy immediately began constructing what was then the world's largest air base, building over existing airstrips for smaller Japanese fighter planes....

The round-trip flight from Tinian to Tokyo took B-29s an average of twelve hours. This proximity to Japan is one reason Tinian served as the headquarters of the 509th Composite Group. Tinian, easy to supply by sea and perfect for launching air attacks against Japan, was desired by the U.S. military because of its key strategic importance.

2021年8月11日 · The Sixth Bomb Group, who trained here, was deployed to Tinian Island in December 1944. Their B-29's were technologically the greatest bombers of World Paid Advertisement

2025年1月8日 · It would become a 40,000-person base, with six 8500-foot (1.5 miles, 2600-meter) runways, hardstands for hundreds of B-29s and other aircraft, and naval facilities including Tinian Harbor. Because the shape of the island was reminiscent of Manhattan, New York, the Seabees laid it out in a pattern, and with place names, based on the city streets ...

On July 9, 2016, we had the opportunity to investigate two sonar anomalies that we thought might be a B-29 aircraft lost in World War II near Tinian Island. Tinian, captured in 1944 as part of the U.S. “island hopping” strategy, became one of the largest airbases during the conflict and a center for B-29 operations.

The B-29 raids on Japanese cities were mainly conducted with firebombs, but when atomic bombs became available, specially trained B-29 crews arrived on Tinian. These crews used modified B-29s that were to carry extraordinarily large bombs--so large that the bombs had to be loaded into the planes from specially constructed pits dug into the ...

World War II-era look at "Biggest and busiest airport in the world in 1945." Based on over 1000 slides our father, Irving Winkler, shot with his U.S. Army Signal Corps unit, Dave Wilson,...