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 ...
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B-29 Strategic Operations against Japan Part 2: Island Operations
Originally struggling to achieve success in the China Burma India Theater, the Boeing B-29 Superfortress made its mark once ...
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 ...
CNMI residents will gather with students from Japan Wednesday for the 6th annual Tinian Nagasaki Hiroshima Peace Ceremony in order to remember the island’s role in the 1945 atomic bombing of the ...
Historian Don Farrell shared how Tinian's post-World War II camp had no CHamorus. They were all moved off the island, leaving only Japanese and Koreans. He presented his research, "Camp Chulu: From ...
The B-29 Superfortress lends much of its early history to the Wendover Army Air Base on the Utah-Nevada border that trained crews to fly the military’s largest plane in the waning days of World War II ...
U.S. Air Force Capt. Joshua Craig, 36, a medical officer who maintained nuclear-capable cruise missiles earlier in his career, stands near the atomic bomb pits on the island of Tinian, Tuesday, Feb.
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 ...
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