Alan Lloyd watched B-29 bombers fly low over his childhood home in the 1940s. The planes, heavy with fuel, climbed slowly over Makiki Heights. Lloyd remembers the B-29s would take off from Honolulu ...

This collection includes a large map, 55 by 29 1/2 inches, detailing the route taken by the B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay after its return from Hiroshima, from Tinian to Hawaii via Kwajalein. Entitled ...

Leonard Carpi will put on his 9th Bomb Group cap today, the one he always wears on Veterans Day, the one that shows a gray B-29 Superfortress flying above the bill with the words, "Tinian Island 1945.

The end of July marked the 80th anniversary of the invasion of Tinian, completing the campaign to capture the Marianas Islands during Operation FORAGER. Seizure of the Marianas Islands enabled a ...

In 1986 a special assignment took me to the remote, desolate and windswept island of Tinian in the Northern Mariana Islands. What remained of long, twin runways built for B-29s to attack Japan during ...

In 1944, at the height of the fighting on Tinian Island during World War II, schoolgirl Mitsuko Arakaki and her family resolved to die rather than be killed. At the last moment, fear drove her to flee ...

Tinian island is seen here from the flight deck of a C-130H flying a humanitarian aid and disaster relief mission in support of Cope North 13, Feb. 6, 2013. Cope North is a multilateral aerial ...