Dedication of Corbett Square Nov 20, 2008
Gerald Jerry Corbett served from January 1943 to February 1946 with the 2021st Ordinance Maintenance Company of the U.S. Army Air Forces, where he used his skills as an automotive mechanic working on Tinian Island, where the Enola Gay reportedly took off from on its bombing mission. Donal Stubby Corbett joined the U.S. Navy in February 1943 where he worked as a ship s cook aboard a Patrol Torpedo, PT. Donal s PT was stationed in England, and was in the English Channel on D-Day. (Arlington Advocate, MA)
Daniel D. Ortman Sep 10, 2008
While on Tinian Island, Dan witnessed the takeoffs of the B-29 bombers Enola Gay and Bockscar, on their way to deliver the atomic bombs to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. After the war, Dan returned to Coos Bay and married Charlotte I. Betts. (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
Harkin presents posthumous military medals to Ames family Aug 3, 2008
According to Conrad Lawlor, Joseph Lawlor (1893-1982) was a U.S. Army veteran during World War I and helped with the Pancho Villa campaign along the U.S. Mexican border, joined the Navy during World War II and served as a commander of the Navy Seabees (construction battalion) on Tinian Island. "He was also one of the Seabees who was chosen to be part of the motion picture, 'The Fighting Seabees,'" Conrad Lawlor said before the ceremony began. (Ames Daily Tribune, IA)
Keeping the memory alive May 26, 2008
Uncle Lawrence, as Megan and her mother call him, was a U.S. Marine killed in action on Tinian Island in the Pacific near the end of World War II. ... On July 24, 1944, Lawrence led his men ashore on Tinian Island, located 5 miles south of the shores of Saipan ... Lawrence was buried on Tinian Island for four years before his remains were returned home. (The St. Augustine Record)
Ralph McFayden (6) Apr 7, 2008
During this time he was stationed on Tinian Island in the South Pacific and was a sergeant in the 58th Bomb Wing, 444th Bomb Group, 677th Squadron of the 20th Air Force. He was a tail gunner on The Talie Ho , a B-29 Superfortress and flew thirteen combat missions over Japan. (Rockingham Daily Journal, NC)
Paul Tibbets Jr., 92; piloted Enola Gay over Hiroshima Nov 2, 2007
The Enola Gay, named after his mother, took off from Tinian Island, near the Pacific island of Guam, in the predawn hours of Aug. 6. The crew carried an atomic bomb nicknamed "Little Boy" and its target was Hiroshima, a city chosen because it was a military center and had no prisoner-of-war camps. (Boston Globe)
Brig-Gen Paul Tibbets Nov 2, 2007
Over the next few months the group moved to Tinian Island, near Guam. On August 5 1945 President Harry Truman sanctioned the use of the weapons against Japan. (Telegraph.co.uk)
1st A-bomb on Japan pilot dies Nov 2, 2007
On Aug. 6, 1945, then 30-year-old Tibbets and his crew piloted the Enola Gay, a B-29 that he named for his mother, down the runway on Tinian Island for a six-hour flight to Japan. They dropped the first atomic bomb used in combat at 0915 plus 15 seconds. (Xinhuanet, China)
Dean, 83, stays in the game Sep 24, 2007
He recalled an instance where some of the surplus he purchased while in the on Tinian Island in the 1940s in the Pacific included a chain hoist that was used in the assembling of the atomic bomb before it was loaded. We had to label stuff differently than what it really was, Dean said. (Rolla Daily News, MO)
WWII vets to appear on PBS Aug 17, 2007
Interviewed Wednesday were local veterans Al Rockafellow, 84, who served in the Army Air Corps from 1942-1945, Mario Patruno, 86, a private first class in the U.S. Army's 101st airborne squadron who was a D-Day paratrooper, Pete Pinto, 88, an Army sergeant who was part of the invasion of North Africa, and Robert Ong, 83, an Air Corps corporal who served as a ground crewman stationed on Tinian Island, where the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan took off from. After Rockafellow... (The St. Augustine Record)
Flagler man who survived wreck to appear on 'Shark Week' Jul 29, 2007
The Indianapolis carried the world's first operational atomic bomb to Tinian Island in the western Pacific Ocean on July 26, 1945, according to Web site www. ussindianapolis. (Daytona Beach News Journal)
Years Best Science Fiction #14 Jun 8, 2007
Another historical setting is Tinian Island in 1945, where the action for 'The Lucky Strike' takes place. Kim Stanley Robinson takes a poignant look at what might have happened, had another plane flown the mission to bomb Hiroshima; ironically, what was one of the stronger stories in its day has now faded, along with memories of the Cold War. (Suite101.com)
