West Field is a former World War II airfield on Tinian in the Mariana Islands. Today, West Field is used as the civilian Tinian International Airport...

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. Along with...

Tinian (/ˈtɪniən, ˌtiːniˈɑːn/) is one of the three principal islands of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI). Together with uninhabited...

Tinian International Airport (IATA: TIQ, ICAO: PGWT, FAA LID: TNI), also known as West Tinian Airport, is a public airport located on Tinian Island in...

called Tinian Harbor. All construction was carried out by the Navy's Seabees 6th Naval Construction Brigade, including the main two airfields: West Field and...

Battle of Tinian was part of the Pacific campaign of World War II. It was fought between the United States and Japan on the island of Tinian in the Mariana...

444th Bombardment Group (Very Heavy) arrived on 15 November 1945 from West Field, Tinian with four squadrons (344th, 676th, 677th, and 678th) of wartime B-29s...

of the Bockscar North Field on Tinian West Field on Tinian US Navy VFA-14's Curtiss SB2C Helldiver over Tinian in 1947, before base closure Saipan map...

71, & 75) Umiat Airport (CBD 1058) Wake Island (85th CB) West Field (Tinian) Today is Tinian International Airport. (6th Construction Brigade) Yandina...

Pearl Harbor Attack; its B-17s largely destroyed on the ground at Hickam Field. The unit was reformed into a B-24 Liberator heavy bomb group after the...

from India to West Field, Tinian (now Tinian International Airport), in April 1945 and the 315th Wing began arriving at Northwest Field, Guam, in May...

Force Base), New Mexico 509th Bombardment Group Reassigned from North Field, Tinian on 8 November 1946 509th Bombardment Wing established on 3 November...

being constructed there. In April, the squadron moved to the new West Field (Tinian), which was nearer to Japan and would permit direct strikes on the...

468th Bombardment Group arrived at Roswell on 12 January 1946 from West Field, Tinian. At Roswell the group exchanged aircraft and equipment with the 509th...

India-China Division, Air Transport Command. The B-29 groups moved to West Field, Tinian, in early 1945. After a period of reshuffling, Eastern Air Command's...

their personnel into its remaining squadrons. The group moved to West Field (Tinian), in the Marianas between February and April 1945, for further operations...

of 1945 the 444th and the other groups of the 58th wing moved to West Field (Tinian) in the Marianas in order to continue operations against Japan. The...

being constructed there. In April, the squadron moved to the new West Field (Tinian), which was nearer to Japan and would permit direct strikes on the...

invaded the Mariana Islands and as soon as West Field, Tinian, was readied in May 1945, the group flew to West Field and continued the Air Offensive against...

December 1944 – 16 July 1945 Wings 58th Bombardment Wing, Based at West Field, Tinian, 29 March – 16 July 1945 The 58th was the first B-29 Superfortress...

available within the effective bombing range of Japan. It moved to West Field (Tinian) in April 1945, becoming part of the new XXI Bomber Command. From...

Nicknamed "The Big Time Operator". It flew 46 combat missions from North Field, Tinian over Japan. Stricken in 1950 and sent to Naval Air Weapons Station China...

soon as West Field, Tinian, was readied in May 1945, the India-based B-29s were again designated the 58th Bombardment Wing and flew to West Field and continued...

Pacific Area in August 1945. By the time the squadron arrived at West Field (Tinian) in September, hostilities in the Pacific had ended and it did not...

Field, Texas, 28 August 1944 Walker Army Air Field, Kansas, 14 January–11 August 1945 West Field, Tinian, Mariana Islands, 12 September–c. 14 December...

low-level attack mission on Tinian. As Isely Field, North Field, and West Field on Tinian became operational, Kobler Field was increasingly used by the...

River. 31 May 1945: VPB-109 was relocated to West Field, Tinian, with a detachment remaining at Yontan Field, Okinawa. In early July all of the squadron's...

Air Field, Florida, 21 October 1944 – 16 February 1945 North Field, Iwo Jima, 25 April–3 December 1945 Air echelon operated from West Field, Tinian, 23...

bases in the Marianas chain of islands, consisting primarily of Saipan, Tinian, and Guam. The Marianas airfields were considered as being ideal bases from...

of Tinian, although elements of the 468th Group had begun moving as early as February. The squadron arrived at its new base at West Field (Tinian) in...