1,560 miles north of Tinian is the Japanese city of Hiroshima ... For the men who developed the atomic bomb and masterminded the mission, their families and the rest of the world finally know ...

Early in the morning of August 6, 1946, a US Air Force B29 bomber, the Enola Gay, took off from the its base in Tinian ... Three days later the second atomic bomb was dropped on the city of ...

Shortly after midnight on July 30, 1945, toward the end of World War II, two Japanese torpedoes sunk the USS […] ...

After being told of plans for the bombs, in June 1944 he was shipped to the Pacific Island of Tinian, where his job was to test ignition switches for the atomic bomb “Fat Man”, which was later ...

The USS Indianapolis had just delivered components of the atomic bomb that would soon flatten Hiroshima, racing from San Francisco to the tiny island of Tinian in a record-breaking ten days.

On July 26, 1945, the heavy cruiser U.S.S. Indianapolis landed on Tinian Island in the northern Pacific and delivered components for the atomic bomb that 11 days later would be dropped on Hiroshima.