From the air, a witness recounted, Tinian resembled “a giant aircraft carrier, its deck loaded with bombers.”1 Others were reminded of Manhattan, an island comparable in size, which was likewise paved over. Tinian’s road network, like that of Manhattan, was laid out in a grid pattern. Its two major north-south roads were called Broadway and Eighth Avenue; east-west “cross streets” included Wall Street, Forty-Second Street, and 110th Street. An undeveloped livestock reserve in the middle of the island was called “Central Park.”
