Jardine: It's semi-official -- J Street has its own mayor Nov 1, 2009
He served on a ground crew on Tinian Island, from which the B-29s 00004000 Enola Gay and Bockscar departed to drop atomic bombs on Japan in August 1945. Cooney, though, had left the island courtesy of a Japanese soldier stranded on Tinian after the United States invaded and captured it a year earlier. (Modesto Bee, CA)
Jardine: Streaker with poor sense of direction visits salon Sep 1, 2009
Modesto's Vern Korock was among the SeaBees who built the runway on Tinian Island, from which the Enola Gay and Bockscar B-29s took off to drop the atomic bombs that ultimately ended World War II in 1945. As a result, Lonie Black of Turlock didn't have to fear being in the first wave of U.S. soldiers to invade the Japanese mainland, a strategy that anticipated heavy casualties. (Modesto Bee, CA)
Forum: Going back in time aboard the Enola Gay Aug 23, 2009
He took us back 64 years to Aug. 6, 1945, to Tinian Island in the South Pacific, where secrecy and uncertainty pervaded the preparations of airmen and scientists. We went with him through the flight itself - the visual sighting of Hiroshima - the sudden bounce in the plane's altitude as the weight of the bomb was released. (Athens Banner-Herald)
'In Harm's Way'Author shares tale of survival at Ross Ragland Friday Feb 20, 2009
The USS Indianapolis, a Navy cruiser, delivered critical components for the first atomic bomb to Tinian Island in the Pacific a month before the U.S. attack on Hiroshima, Japan. It was the ship s journey home that made it famous. (Klamath Falls Herald & News, OR)
