Quotes About Tinian Island

When I first met the survivors of the Indianapolis in 1999 while writing a book about them, their story - the last major action of World War II - was rarely mentioned in high school textbooks. This is despite the fact that, before its torpedoing, the ship had delivered components of the atomic bomb Little Boy to Tinian Island.

Playing poker in their Quonset hut on Tinian, killing the last hours of the preatomic age.