The end of July marked the 80th anniversary of the invasion of Tinian, completing the campaign to capture the Marianas Islands during Operation FORAGER. Seizure of the Marianas Islands enabled a ...

The U.S. military is undertaking a significant restoration of North Field on Tinian, revitalizing over 20 million square feet ...

U.S. Marines are testing a stripped-down refueling kit that fits inside a single tiltrotor aircraft, allowing small teams to ...

TOKYO — Attention, Marines: If you need a new home for those helicopters on Okinawa, give Tinian a call. The tiny mid-Pacific island is waiting to hear from you. That’s the message from leaders on the ...

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 is part of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, a US territory in the Pacific, some 6,000 kilometers (3,700 miles) west of Hawaii in the Pacific. Only about 3,000 people live on ...

Hisao Ito, once a resident of Tinian in the Mariana Islands, witnessed the killing of his two younger sisters by their father during a mass suicide following the landing of U.S. forces in World War II ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Among the most strategically vital objectives for the United States forces in the Pacific during World War II were three islands ...

The day was August 6, 1945, the weather was calm and mild as an overloaded B-29 Superfortress named Enola Gay struggled to lift off from the huge airstrip located on the South Pacific island of Tinian ...

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 ...