Gen. Kenneth Wilsbach, commander of Pacific Air Forces, told Nikkei Asia in an interview published this week that North Airfield on the island of Tinian will become an “extensive” facility once work ...

The US Air Force is developing more dispersed bases to counter the threat posed by China's missiles. That effort includes construction at established facilities and the reclamation of disused outposts ...

The Air Force may call to mind fabulous images of fighter jets, stealth bombers and enormous transport planes in flight. But it takes elbow grease to keep those aircraft aloft, and one of the ...

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TOKYO – It’s not clear if anyone appreciates the irony, but Japan wants to help pay for a new U.S. military base on Tinian island, a former Imperial Army stronghold from which the atomic bombings of ...

United States Pacific forces are sharpening their ability to operate in dispersed island locations as part of preparations for a potential conflict with China, establishing a forward arming and ...

The B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay as it moved over the bomb pit on the North Field of Tinian air base, North Marianas Islands, early August, 1945. The plane was loaded with an atomic bomb, codenamed ...