The U.S. is restoring North Field on Tinian Island, a historically significant airfield, to strengthen its military presence in the Pacific. Federal judge rules Trump administration has to pay ...

Since then, the island's jungle has grown over ... existing sites to build on and mostly flat land, Tinian should be one of the easier places for the Defense Department to work, the aide said.

WSJ’s Niharika Mandhana traveled to Tinian Island, where the U.S. is reviving a vast World War II-era airfield. Photo: DVIDS ...

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.