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Negros by a bridge. Built by the Imperial Japanese at Momote during World War II. Known as Hayne Airfield by the Japanese, as they called Los Negros, Hayne...

Momote Airfield. Seabees completed all Momote Airfield construction and improvements on June 1, 1944 and turned the 7,800-feet runway Momote Airfield...

Mokerang Airfield, was an airfield on the northwest tip of Los Negros Island, 5 miles (8.0 km) NNW of Momote Airfield. It was built by the Imperial Japanese...

objective, and had concentrated their forces around the Lorengau airfield. The defence of the Momote airstrip and Hyane harbour was the responsibility of Baba...

through the rain. They quickly fought their way to the Momote Airfield and had the entire airfield under control in less than two hours. The United Press...

against the Japanese-held Momote Airfield. Due to bad weather, he was forced to turn back from the mission and diverted to an airfield in Cape Gloucester and...

on Momote Airfield, 8 March 1944 Momote Airfield with Seabees working at night in 1944. CB 40 worked day and night on the Los Negros Momote Airfield. US...

move forward to Luganville Airfield, Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, until June. From Guadalcanal, it struck enemy airfields and military installations...

Regiment arrive at Los Negros while the previous landing group took Momote Airfield. The 16th Academy Awards were held at Grauman's Chinese Theater, marking...

Allied ground forces, the USAAF Fifth Air Force established a series of airfields, some at existing facilities, but most were carved out of the jungle to...

combat operations. Established on 14 December 1942 at Plaine Des Gaiacs Airfield, on New Caledonia, 13 AF was a United States Army Air Forces combat air...

farther removed from Japanese advances by flying south from Christmas Island Airfield . Map this section's coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates...

it did not move to Koli Airfield, Guadalcanal, in the Solomon Islands until March. From Guadalcanal, it struck enemy airfields and military installations...

bombers. Left Hawaii in November 1942 and, operating primarily from Pekoa Airfield, Espírito Santo in the New Hebrides Islands with a mix of B-17 and B-24...

rehabilitating the airstrip which they had in use within two days. Momote airfield became operational on 18 May 1944 and remains in use today. It became...

the South and Southwest Pacific, until the war ended. Attacked Japanese airfields, installations, and shipping in the Solomon Islands and Bismarck Islands...

Momote Airstrip on Los Negros Island in March 1944. No. 79 Squadron became operational there with 24 aircraft on the 29th of the month. From Momote,...

Observations Squadron. During this period, the squadron took to building airfields. A lieutenant and twenty enlisted persons from the 4th began construction...

necessary, erecting additional buildings and aircraft hangars as new airfields were required as training was expanded with additional pilots and aircraft...

1943 Munda Airfield, New Georgia, Solomon Islands, 9 January 1944 Momote Airfield, Los Negros, Admiralty Islands, 16 April 1944 Wakde Airfield, Netherlands...