(Ebook) The Battle of Tinian: The Capture of the Atomic Bomb Island, July-August 1944 by John Grehan & Alexander Nicoll ISBN 9781399085274, 1399085271

(Ebook) The Battle of Tinian: The Capture of the Atomic Bomb Island, July-August 1944 by John Grehan & Alexander Nicoll ISBN 9781399085274, 1399085271

An illustrated history of the battle to take Atomic Bomb Island. At 02.45 hours on the morning of 6 August 1945, a Boeing B-29 Superfortress, named after the pilot's mother, Enola Gay, lifted off from a tiny island deep in the Pacific Ocean on one of the most important missions in human history. The B-29 carried just one bomb; the target was Hiroshima. The dropping of the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, and of a second nuclear device on Nagasaki three days later, is known throughout the world. But what is often forgotten is that these missions were only possible following the savage battles to seize the Northern Mariana Islands - which, crucially, were within the B-29's operational range of Japan. With the capture of these islands, the defeat of Hirohito's Imperial Japan became a certainty as for the first time in the war land-based heavy bombers could fly all the way to Tokyo and back.