PICTURES OF TINIAN, 1944/1945
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40th Bomb Group Area
Gurguan Point

25th Squadron Area
Group Mess Hall in Rear

25th Squadron Hardstands
West Field

Tinian from the North

North Field
Runway #1

North Field Area

Lineup for Takeoff

Prop Pull Through

Bomb Load

25th Sq #10 "Genie"
Australia, June 1945

Some of Genie's Crew

VJ Day Dressing

Building A Tent Frame with
Lumber Scrounged From Docks

GroupRadar Shop

40th BG Officers Club
Opened Summer 1945

SeaBees Greeting

Broadway, Tinian

Unloading
Tinian Harbor Docks

Ground View

505th Formation
Over North Field

A North Field
Officers Club


Nose Art 3

North Field

Photographs from the Raymond J. Biedenbach Collection
Courtesy of Ron Biedenbach


Prop Maintenance

"Lady in Waiting"

Operations Board

Color Guard

P-51 Cowling

Recreation Area
(for North Field)

Japanese Prisoners

North Field Barracks

Armament Shop
North Field

Loading Ammunition


"The First Atomic Bomb"

Nose Art

Military Cemetary
Tinian