“In the middle of the Pacific ocean, an abandoned US airfield once key to dropping the nuclear bomb on Japan - and nearly lost to history amid encroaching forest - is being revived.
But as the Americans hack away at the jungle overgrowth at #Tinian island airfield and other old, World War II-era bases across the region, it will not be with Japan on their mind.”
WASHINGTON: In the middle of the Pacific ocean, an abandoned US airfield once key to dropping the nuclear bomb on Japan - and nearly lost to history amid encroaching forest - is being revived. But as the Americans hack away at the jungle overgrowth at Tinian island airfield and other old, World War II-era
From Stars and Stripes: Air Force plans return to WWII-era Pacific airfield on Tinian