In 1945, Tinian’s northern airfield was large and busy, hosting four runways. In the decades after World War II, the jungle took over, devouring large tracts of the airfield. Now the US military ...

Cressy served as an RAAF training base during World War II before it was abandoned and largely forgotten. The airfield is now owned by Paul Lamont. "My father was here in World War II," Mr Lamont ...

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After the first one in the Pacific few months ago, the USMC renovated and reopened another WW2 airfield in North Carolina which will serve as a multipurpose outlying landing field. The U.S. Marine ...

Luke AFB has a legacy of training fighter pilots since 1941. Now serving as the F-16 hub, Luke hosts the most fighters under ...

(Cpl. Alexander Mitchell/Marine Corps) A recently refurbished, World War II-era airfield is the second such site the Marine Corps has reactivated this year for air training and operations.

US troops have ventured to remote corners of the Pacific and to bases rarely used since World War II — including the island of Tinian, where they're reclaiming an airfield that last saw major ...

Gen. Douglas MacArthur established his place as a World War II icon 80 years ago when he waded onto a Philippine beach on Oct ...

Two German men have died when their World War II-era airplane crashed and caught fire in southern Finland minutes after takeoff. Police say the single-engine, two-seater T-6 Texan plane — a popular Am ...

The remote Pacific airfield used to launch the atomic bombings of Japan during World War II is being revived with a different foe in mind: China. Runways emerging from the encroaching jungles on ...

To counter China, the U.S. is racing to upgrade remote airstrips in the Pacific Ocean. WSJ’s Niharika Mandhana traveled to Tinian Island, where the U.S. is reviving a vast World War II-era airfield.