The U.S. military is undertaking a significant restoration of North Field on Tinian, revitalizing over 20 million square feet of World War II-era runways and infrastructure. Originally built as a ...

This story appears in the August 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. On July 26, 1945, the heavy cruiser U.S.S. Indianapolis landed on Tinian Island in the northern Pacific and delivered ...

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 ...