WSJ’s Niharika Mandhana traveled to Tinian Island, where the U.S. is reviving a vast World War II-era airfield. Photo: DVIDS A global look at the economic and cultural forces shaping our world.

the heavy cruiser U.S.S. Indianapolis landed on Tinian Island in the northern Pacific and delivered components for the atomic bomb that 11 days later would be dropped on Hiroshima. World War II ...

and the rebuilding on Tinian is a key piece of that. Reclaiming a World War II-era airfield largely obscured by thick, emerald-green jungle on a tiny Pacific island is no simple task. In recent ...