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The two bomb pits used to load the Little Boy and Fat Man bombs are enclosed with glazed panels. [73] The Navy disestablished the naval advanced base on Tinian on 1 December 1946, [74] but the United States military remained on the island. A fifty-year, 16,100-acre (6,500 ha) lease agreement was signed in 1983, under which the land became the ...
Topographic map of the island of Tinian, showing buildings as of 1999. Tinian is about 5 nautical miles (9.3 km) southwest of Saipan, from which it is separated by the Saipan Channel. It has a land area of 39 square miles (100 km 2), with its highest elevation on the Kastiyu plateau at 187 meters (614 ft). It is considerably flatter than Saipan.
Tinian, Mariana Islands, 1945 after airfield construction, looking north to south. The massive North Field, 313th Bombardment Wing in front, West Field, 58th Bombardment Wing, in background. The 313th BW consisted of 4 B-29 Superfortress Bombardment Groups, later adding the 509th Composite Group, which conducted the Atomic Bomb Attacks against ...
The caption for the bomb-pit picture copies the information given in the external link, that Pit #1 was used for Fat Man before being loaded on to the Enola Gay. In fact, of course, it was Little Boy that was carried by Enola Gay – Fat Man was carried by Bockscar. Though "#1" seems to imply the earlier bombing, I think it best to leave ...
West Field is a former World War II airfield on Tinian in the Mariana Islands.Today, West Field is used as the civilian Tinian International Airport.West Field at Tinian Naval Base was a base for Twentieth Air Force B-29 Superfortress operations against the Japanese Home Islands in 1944–45 and the base for the B-29 Superfortress 58th Bombardment Wing.
313th Bombardment Wing, 8 June 1944 – 16 July 1945 [11] Based at North Field, Tinian; The 313th participated in the fire-bombing raids, but its primary mission was the mining of Japanese sea lanes. It began combat missions from Tinian in early February 1945. The mining operation was conceived by the United States Navy. At the time, it was ...
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Little Boy was a type of atomic bomb created by the United States as part of the Manhattan Project during World War II.The name is also often used to describe the specific bomb (L-11) used in the bombing of the Japanese city of Hiroshima by the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay on 6 August 1945, making it the first nuclear weapon used in warfare, and the second nuclear explosion in history ...