The US Air Force is bringing back the Pacific island airfield that launched the atomic bombings of Japan back into commission. The long-dormant World War II airfield, North Field, is based on ...

The airfield at North Field Air Base ... used as a launching point for B-29 bombers during WWII, contributing to missions targeting Imperial Japan to include the ‘Enola Gay’ and its historic ...

Peleliu: WWII's Most Well-Preserved Battlefield is ... The initial objective for the First Marine Division was to take the Japanese airfield on Peleliu. Thick, concrete Japanese pillboxes ...

(WTVM) - A piece of American war history is now rebuilt decades later. The World War II-era Japanese airfield on a Pacific Island is now named after a Marine hero from Alabama. Henry Sledge is ...

A US Marine Corps aircraft has landed on a rebuilt runway on a World War II-era Japanese airfield on the Pacific island of Peleliu, site of one of the Marines’ bloodiest battles of the war and ...

An unexploded bomb dropped during World War II and subsequently ... as well as an airfield from which kamikaze pilots took off on suicide attack missions. Japan's Asahi Shimbun newspaper reported ...

shows Micronesia's Woleai atoll and its disused airfield in the northeast. Copernicus The Woleai runway was built by Imperial Japanese forces during World War II, but has long fallen into ...

was assigned the critical task of rehabilitating the WWII-era Japanese airfield, enhancing U.S. military strategic capabilities in the Indo-Pacific region. On June 22, a KC-130J Super Hercules ...

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — Japanese divers working magnetic surveys for the government at two sites on Okinawa discovered 20 pieces of unexploded ordnance believed to be left over from World War II.