EARLY AIRBASE CONSTRUCTION ON TINIAN, 1944 - 1945
Pictures from Construction Battalion Maintenance Unit #593 (CBMU593)
Part of a great SeaBee force that constructed the world's largest airbase (Tinian)
Photos by Bill Fitzpatrick from that unit

Prehistoric Stone Carvings	Carvings, View 2	Remains of Tinian Sugar Mill
Sugar Mill, View 2	Sugar Cane Field Workers	Sugar Cane Press
Tinian Harbor, 1944	Japanese Storage Bunker (Earth cover removed) Showing thickness of concrete	Blown out section (same bunker)
Ushi Field Hanger Wrecked Japanese Aircraft	Another view	One of the first US carrier based aircraft to land at Ushi Field
Wrecked Japanese Aircraft Near Ushi Field	Japanese Fuel Storage Ushi Field	P.O.W. Stockade
Christmas Day 1944 CB John Nigri heading for shower	Moments later during air attack Bombs exploding in background CB Dan Wanko	Japanese "Betty" shot down Courtesy Ushi Field AA Battery
Constructing "pontoons" on tower To provide solar heated hot water	Anything for a bath Tiled tub in Tinian Town residence CB Turner with gun, CB Garritson with smile	Bill Fitzpatrick CB Equipment Area
More Equipment	CB's Machine Shop	CB's Storage Compound Note overhead wire: CB's had electric lights 1 week after setting up camp
Pipeline to off load fuel from tankers from a buoy 3/4 mile off shore	CB Bill Fitzpatrick Power and Communications Facilitator	Same
One of the 1st B-29's to arrive North Field, Tinian	Same	Same
Same	Same	Same
PB4Y-1 (B-24) (presumed to be at West Field)	Same	Same
P-51 operating from Tinian	Propaganda Leaflet (front)	(back)
Japanese Sake Label A good CB could locate this product encased in concrete if necessary	SeaBee Humor	Ed Kerkhoff at North Field, March 1944 B-29 with 112th SeaBees Logo (Ed Kerkhoff photo)
112th SeaBees Reunion photo Ed Kerkhoff 2nd from left