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 was 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

all hands were lost. On 18 November, the squadron was relocated to West Field, Tinian. 1 January – 18 February 1945: The squadron was engaged in air cover...

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...

attacks from Isely (and the other Twentieth Air Force airfields on Guam and Tinian), General Curtis LeMay, Commander of Twentieth Air Force issued a new directive...

Australia. Flying north through New Guinea, it reached its new home at West Field, Tinian, in the Mariana Islands on 4 April where it and its parent 58th Bombardment...

21 Oct 1944 – 16 Feb 1945 North Field, Iwo Jima, 25 Apr – 3 Dec 1945 Air echelon operated from West Field, Tinian, 23 Mar – 11 May 1945 Camp Anza, California...