The US Air Force is reportedly ready to put Tinian airport back into operation, the Pacific island about 6,000 kilometers west of Hawaii, from where it launched the atomic bombing of Japan. This is CNN’s indiscretion, according to which the choice would be an “attempt to expand its basing options in the event of hostility with China”, declared the commander of the Air Force in the Pacific, Kenneth Wilsbach. Wilsbach explained that the North Airfield on the island of Tinian will become an “extensive” facility once the clearing of the vegetation that grew over the base after it was abandoned by the U.S. Air Force in 1946 is completed. convenient, be careful. In the coming months, significant progress will be observed, especially in North Tinian”, updates Wilsbach. The Air Force is also implementing improvements at Tinian International Airport in the center of the island.
Tinian, with a territory of about 100 square kilometers and a population of just 3,000 people, shares with neighbors Saipan and Guam a rich history of US air operations. The deadliest attack in history, on March 10, 1945 in Tokyo, which killed 100,000 people and injured more than a million, was carried out by B-29s launched from the three islands. At the time of the long bombing of Japan in 1945, Tinian North Field, with its four 1.5-mile runways and 40,000 people, was the largest and busiest airport in the world. Campo Norte definitely entered history on August 6, 1945, when at dawn the B-29 Enola Gay bomber took off from the Able runway carrying the atomic bomb that would be dropped on Hiroshima. The bomb killed 70,000 people with its initial explosion and ushered the world into the nuclear age. Three days later, another B-29, named Bockscar, left Tinian to drop an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, killing 46,000 people from the initial explosion alone.
As China, the country the Pentagon identifies as its “most imminent threat,” continues to exhaust its missile capacity, the U.S. Air Force is looking for places to disperse its fleet in order to make it harder to detect. .
Source: IL Tempo
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