The NHK special will be aired in early August and will feature a behind-the-scenes look at the information war that went on between the U.S. Army Air Forces’ 509th Composite Group stationed on Tinian at the time, and the Japanese Army and Navy. While on Tinian, the three-member shooting crew filmed aerial and land footage of North Field, where the bombs were loaded aboard waiting B-29s, the 509th Composite Group Camp and bomb assembly areas. The crew also interviewed 509th veteran Russel Gaachenbach.
The Marianas Visitors Authority assisted the team with securing film permits and helping clear access to the jungle-covered shooting sites.
North Field, the atomic bomb storage pits, invasion beaches, and numerous other World War II sites and artifacts on Tinian are still readily accessible to visitors today.
