Task & Purpose: The Air Force is trying to reclaim a World War II-era airfield
The decades-old airfield on Tinian is covered in overgrown vegetation. The Air Force plans to turn it into a modern, small air base.
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 many that launched from that airfield. Then only two years later it was largely abandoned.
Now the U.S. military is quite literally clawing it back from nature.
The North Field, or Tinian North airfield as it is also called, is currently being prepped to be renovated and turned into an active modern U.S. Air Force facility, according to Gen. Kenneth Wilsbach, commander of Pacific Air Forces.
In an interview this month with Japanese news outlet Nikkei Asia earlier this month, Wilsbach said that the military intends to bring the airfield back to life. First will involve clearing decades of overgrowth that has sprung up, leaving an “overgrown jungle” over the airfield’s pavement
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U.S. Plans To Revive An Airfield In The Pacific That Was Used To Drop 2 Atomic Bombs On Japan
Air Force plans return to WWII-era Pacific airfield on Tinian -- Stars and Stripes
US Air Force to restore WWII-era airfield to enable Pacific operations to counter Chinese presence -- Republic World
US military revamping airfield near Guam to ensure Indo-Pacific security -- Taiwan News
U.S. Military Restoring WWII Atomic Bomb Launch Airfield as Tensions Rise in Pacific -- KNEWZ
4 comments:
Will we bomb them again? I need
Toyota parts so I hope they hold off for three months
Tinian is a beautiful island with great people. I was there with a Marine expeditionary float in '76. after conducting a training raid on the airfield, our secondary mission was to search the area for a Japanese underground hospital. We found an air vent believed to belong to the Japanese and turned the info to the Japanese government. Anyone who is stationed that is gonna love it if they like the sub tropics. If you are an urbanite you will hate it. Not much there.
Someone at the pentagon is thinking.
This will be the backup if Guam and Okinawa get hammered.
Problem is , in the age of missiles and hypersonics , it may not matter, but you got to try.
This is like building an airfield near Cuba or the Dominican Republic. The US would never allow this, yet they expect China to sit idly by.
And can we please ask the people if they want this? The US population does not want this conflict, yet here we go, encircling China and re-opening a base that was used for nuclear terror. Really? Is that what we need for 2024??
We need to hold our "leaders" accountable for decades of profiting from unjust wars BEFORE we open up another war. It is beyond insane and it is IMORAL!!
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