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 ...

This collection consists of 504 black and white photographs, mostly taken on Tinian Island during World War II. The photographs are snapshots or small reproductions of official Army Air Corps ...

During WWII, the U.S. had 93 airfields across the Pacific. Today, just 33 remain — and that’s not enough. New satellite images show jungle being cleared on Tinian, where planes that bombed Hiroshima ...

IT COULD BE a giant archaeological dig. Bulldozers tear at the jungle to reclaim the history of the second world war and its dark finale: the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 80 years ago this ...