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Ie Shima Auxiliary Airfield (伊江島補助飛行場, Iejima Hojo Hikōjō) is a training facility, managed by the United States Marine Corps and a former World War II...

Iejima (伊江島, Iejima, Okinawan: Ii shima), previously romanized in English as Ie Shima, is an island in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, lying a few kilometers...

the village. Out of 22.78 km2 land of Ie, approximately a third, or 8.02 km2 is occupied by Ie Shima Airfield, a training facility, managed by the United...

on the island of Iejima in Ie, Kunigami District, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. The runways were part of the Ie Shima Airfield complex built during World...

Seabee repaired the remaining airfields at Ie Shima Airfield, Futema Airfield, Machinato Airfield and Tsuken Shima Airfield. By August, the troops peaked...

Captain Charles C. Kegelman attacked four airfields in the Netherlands. Alerted to the attack, the airfield defences were prepared for the raid when it...

Thunderbolts with the 19th Fighter Squadron, 318th Fighter Group, from Ie Shima Airfield, Okinawa, he downed five Japanese fighters in a single action on 25...

mainland, as well as flying escort missions in the area. Moving to Ie Shima Airfield in August 1945, the 8th flew several missions against the Japanese...

began operations from Ie Shima Airfield in June. It engaged in dive-bombing and strafing attacks on factories, radar stations, airfields, small ships and other...

(Territory), 9 February 1943 East Field, Saipan, Mariana Islands, June 1944 Ie Shima Airfield, Okinawa, c. 30 April 1945 Okinawa, November–December 1945 301st Fighter...

November 1944 – 7 April 1945 Ie Shima Airfield, Okinawa, 19 May 1945 Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, c. 17 November 1945 Yontan Airfield, Okinawa, 29 January 1946...

19th Fighter Squadron P-47N Thunderbolt, Ie Shima Airfield, 1945...

1 July 1945 it began flying airstrikes from Ie Shima, targeting enemy ships, railroad bridges, airfields, factories, and barracks in Japan, Korea, and...

23 October 1959. 805th Engineer Aviation Battalion (United States) Ie Shima Airfield Unit Historical Card for the 1892nd Engineer Aviation Battalion. United...

staging field for flights to Okinawa. In August 1945, the group moved to Ie Shima, in the Ryukyus, from where the fighter squadrons flew surveillance missions...

missions against airfields, industrial installations and enemy installations in China and Formosa. In July 1945 it moved to Ie Shima Airfield, from which it...

to August 1946 while it was stationed in the Ryukyu Islands, first on Ie Shima and later on Okinawa. Following the war, the 34th FS was inactivated on...

slowest plane The squadron moved to Yontan Airfield, Okinawa in May 1945 and finally settled on Ie Shima Airfield on 15 June 1945. Between 14 May – 29 June...

operations in the Philippines until the end of operations there, moving to Ie Shima Airfield near Okinawa in preparation for the planned American invasion of Japan...

1944) McGuire Field San Jose, Mindoro, Philippines, 20 December 1944 Ie Shima Airfield, Ryuku Islands, 5 August 1945 Fukuoka Air Base, Japan, 25 November...