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The photos show daily activities on Tinian, including shots of base facilities, interactions with local people, a military funeral, aircraft nose art, and Boeing B-29 Superfortresses. There are also shots taken in Guam, New Guinea, India, and aerial photography of Japan.
Rare text content from a B-29 Commander (scroll down) + original Photos of Tinian Island in the Marianas, the launching point for the atomic bomb drops on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. Original photos from Bill Webster and the granddaughter of Airplane Commander Roscoe G. Booth.
40 items in this album on 2 pages. William Laurence on Tinian, Mariana Islands, Aug 1945. A TBF-1C Avenger over Tinian, Mariana Islands, Jul 1944 during an attack on the Japanese Ushi Point Airfield, later to become North Field.
The Battle of Tinian was a battle of the Pacific campaign of World War 2, fought on the island of Tinian in the Mariana Islands from 24 July until 1 August 1944. The 9000 man Japanese garrison was eliminated, and the island joined Saipan and Guam as a base for the 20th Air Force.
With the completion of its fourth runway in May 1945, North Field (Tinian) became the largest airport in the world. Its four 8500 ft. long runways supported 265 B-29s, their taxiways, hardstands and ground crews with base facilities and operations that maintained, repaired and serviced the B-29s.
5 Ιουλ 2019 · U.S. Army Air Forces B-29 bombers on the parking areas of Tinian's North Field, 1945. This is the former Japanese Ushi Point airfield, much altered. The beaches in the lower part of the photo...
Oblique airphoto of North Field, Tinian, 1945, showing the massive runway system and number of hardstands. On each hardstand, a B-29 was parked and maintained. North Field is a World War II airfield on Tinian in the Mariana Islands. Abandoned after the war, today North Field is a tourist attraction.
