Departing in the predawn darkness of Aug. 6, 1945, a modified B-29, designated with radio call sign ‘Dimples 82', was carrying a single bomb. Enola Gay was about to change the world. Approximately a ...

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 ...

On a historical impact per square mile basis, few places on earth rival the island of Tinian. Almost completely forgotten ...

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 ...

Tinian, along with the nearby islands of Saipan and Guam, has a rich history of US air operations. During World War II, all three islands, after they were captured from Japanese occupiers, were home ...

This collection includes a large map, 55 by 29 1/2 inches, detailing the route taken by the B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay after its return from Hiroshima, from Tinian to Hawaii via Kwajalein. Entitled ...

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 ...

More than seven decades ago, the planes that dropped two atomic bombs on Japan took off from a small airfield on the Pacific island of Tinian in the Marianas. They were just two bombing missions among ...