For 80 years after the bombing of Hiroshima, the airfields of Tinian Island, from where the bombers took off, were mostly ...

When the strongest storm to hit U.S. soil passed directly over Tinian in October, the island's only church lost its roof and walls, but not the Holy Cross by the altar of the statues of Catholic ...

TINIAN, Northern Marianas Islands — The temperature and humidity are reaching 90 on this tiny island in the remote western Pacific, and I am standing on undoubtedly the most famous runway on earth.

Marines with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit tie a line pier side as the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Washington arrives in Tinian, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands to deliver donated food ...

The Air Force may call to mind fabulous images of fighter jets, stealth bombers and enormous transport planes in flight. But it takes elbow grease to keep those aircraft aloft, and one of the ...

This Friday photo taken by Edwin Propst shows a vehicle that has been flipped over on the island of Saipan, after Super Typhoon Yutu swept through the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands ...

Roy Griffaw and Payton Patrick’s friendship, forged during World War II, endured long after their service—marked by family ties, shared memories, and decades of community life in Southeast Missouri.

TINIAN—After over a year of rehabilitation work, the Tinian municipality and the Commonwealth Ports Authority have finally unveiled the new and improved Tinian Marina. CPA board members and the Tinian ...

The first international charter jet landed at the Tinian International Airport last Friday. (Kimberly A. Bautista)[/caption] SAN JOSE Tinian—A phalanx of CNMI and Tinian officials welcomed the first ...

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 ...

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 ...

For students of history, the waning days of the Pacific War seem to flash by in a blur and, for various reasons, little effort to now has been devoted to the role played by Tinian in the Northern ...