Tinian

American  

[tin-ee-uhn, tee-nee-ahn] / ˈtɪn i ən, ˌti niˈɑn /

noun

1. an island in the W Pacific Ocean, part of the Northern Marianas Islands: World War II airbase. 40 sq. mi. (100 sq. km).

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Example Sentences

That Boeing B-29 bombers that would carry the bombs had already been assembled on Tinian Island, 1,500 miles south of Japan, and the military decision to use the bombs was preordained.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 31, 2023

When the American military took Tinian from the Japanese during World War II, they laid out roads in the same manner as Manhattan — with Broadway, Wall Street, 86th, 42nd and so on.

From New York Times • Jul. 7, 2023

Tinian was the launching point for the Enola Gay atomic bomb attacks against the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

From Seattle Times • May 24, 2023

It is conducting training exercises with U.S. forces on Tinian, a tiny island that is part of the Northern Mariana Islands.

From New York Times • Mar. 27, 2023

Taking a break in the Tinian officers’ club with Serber and Phil Morrison, a theoretical physicist from Berkeley, he remembered Ryokichi Sagane and his two-year sojourn at the Rad Lab.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik