Over at theairfield they're walking around beaming happy over the way the jets are flyin' themselves.
But the jet-planes on the small airfield were very remarkable indeed, and the other and lesser devices had been made for better understanding of the Mahon units which made machines into practically a new order of creation.
This island was nearly bare, for it was mostly covered by the airfield runways.
In the early summer of 1942, intelligence reports of the construction of a Japanese airfield near Lunga Point on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands triggered a demand for offensive action in the South Pacific.
Included in the enemy reinforcements were 150mm howitzers, guns capable of shelling the airfield from positions near Kokumbona.
As if the bombing was not enough grief, the Japanese opened on the airfield with their 150mm howitzers also.
On 8 August, the Marines consolidated their positions ashore, seizing the airfield on Guadalcanal and establishing a beachhead.
At Aola Bay, 40 miles east of the main perimeter, the Navy put an airfield construction and defense force ashore on 4 November.
He had watched the landing from the hills south of the airfield and now brought his bodyguard of native policemen with him.
The Japanese commander’s orders directed him to “quickly recapture and maintain the airfield at Guadalcanal,” and his own directive to his troops emphasized that they would fight “to the last breath of the last man.
The site chosen for a new airfield was unsuitable, too wet and unstable, and the whole force moved to Koli Point in early December, where another airfield eventually was constructed.
South of the airfield where densely jungled ridges and ravines abounded, the beachhead perimeter was guarded by outposts and these were manned in large part by combat support troops.
Available intelligence, including a captured enemy map, pointed to the likelihood of an attack on the airfield and Vandegrift moved his combined raider-parachute battalion to the most obvious enemy approach route, the ridge.
The airfield and its environs were a shambles when dawn broke.
The Navy officer pronounced the airfield fit for fighter use and took off with a load of wounded Marines, the first of 2,879 to be evacuated.
Again, the intelligence that a massive enemy reinforcement attempt was pending forced Vandegrift to pull back most of his men to safeguard the all-important airfield perimeter.
An hour later the truck limped into another airfield which had not been attacked.
He was thinking the paratroopers might take over this airfield very soon.
But would you want to go to an airfield where only men are training, and go through all the practice and finally take the drop, all by yourself?
As for Barbara, besides her regular assigned work, she was taken to an airfieldwhere paratroopers were being trained.
In fact, even to Dawson and Farmer, who had seen that airfield at its worst, it seemed well nigh incredible that it was actually one and the same place.
The truth that Legaspi had fallen to the Japs during the last forty-eight hours, and that the Yank emergency airfield was unquestionably in enemy hands.
If they were to get closer to the airfield ahead, that armed Jap had to be put out of the war for keeps.
Milk Runs and Black Sheep The first Marines to fight at New Georgia were the aircrews who were sent to blunt Japanese efforts to establish an airfield at Munda Point in December 1942.
When we reported to Munda Airfield we had no parachutes and were told each flier had to have his own,” recalled Sandager.
Thus began a routine air and sea pounding of the Munda Airfield until ground forces could capture it for Allied use.
Captain Ervin’s three Battery G 40mm positions seaward of the airfield were straddled by a string of Japanese bombs that managed to just miss everyone.
On 3 July, both batteries of “Long Toms” fired for effect on the Munda airfield and enemy artillery positions on Baanga Island.
Illustration: Even though the 9th Defense Battalion Artillery Group positions at Munda Airfield were bombed, they continued to fire at assigned targets.
After the capture of Munda Point, General Mulcahy moved his command from Rendova to Munda airfield to set up strike and fighter control at Kokengolo Hill.
Getting casualties to the beach or airfield through the jungle or over the muddy roads and trails was extremely difficult.
The primary objective of Operation Toenails was the capture of the airfield on Munda in the New Georgia group.
The airfield was defended by various aviation personnel, antiaircraft units, and the 229th Infantry Regiment.
Illustration: Other Japanese defenses included this 25mm automatic dual-purpose twin-barrelled gun in position on the airfield approaches.
The battle for Munda airfield over, the Zanana Beach and Laiana Beach detachments moved on 6 August to participate in the Munda defenses.
From 16 through 19 August, Japanese artillery on Baanga Island shelled Munda Airfield and Kindu Point causing several casualties and some minor damage.
The captured airfield included aircraft, in this case a Zero fighter in a coconut and coral enclosure, that could not take off after the American landing.
Coming down on an airfield fringed with palms, they were given a cordial greeting by a dozen good American soldiers.
Then some of them will pull and push the plane down the road while the women and children remove enough turnips and earth from the airfield to make us a runway.
After long hours of travel they came swooping down upon a broad island airfield that, as far as they are concerned, will remain forever unnamed.
And then there was a smallairfield below, and the pilot and co-pilot began a pattern of ritualistic conversation.
The feeling on the way to the airfield was not a good one.
The plane was booby-trapped, and somebody at anairfield had had a chance to spring the trap.
A very young lieutenant from the pushpot airfield hunted up Joe and assured him that every drop of fuel in every pushpot's tanks had been tested twice--once in the storage tanks, and again in the pushpots.
The 23d Marines and 27th Marines would capture the first airfield and pivot north within their assigned zones.
While the 28th Marines fought to encircle Suribachi and the beachmasters and shore party attempted to clear the wreckage from the beaches, the remaining assault units of the VAC resumed their collective assault against Airfield No.
Illustration: From the Japanese position overlooking the landing beaches and Airfield No.
The 300-man force took all night to move into position around the island’s now vulnerable rear base area, the tents occupied by freshly arrived Army pilots of VII Fighter Command, adjacent to Airfield No.
The airfield runways proved to be lethal killing zones.
As the Marines struggled to wrest the second airfield from the Japanese, the commanding terrain features rising to the north caught their attention.
Prep fires along the high ground immediately north of the second airfield extended for a full hour.
Despite these difficulties, the 27th Marines made good initial gains, reaching the southern and western edges of the first airfield before noon.
The Marine zone would include the island capital of Agana, the Japanese airfield at Tiyan, Finegayan, and the shores of Tumon Bay.
By early afternoon, the airfield was secured and the 22d Marines had occupied what was left of the old Marine barracks.
At the end of this ceremony, engineers moved onto the airfield to clear away debris and fill the many shell and bomb holes.
General Turnage got well within striking distance of the Tiyan airfield and the little town of San Antonio, on the 31st, but the next day, 1 August, his advance was seriously slowed by mines.
A big Jap bomber tried to sneak off the local airfield that we had built with prisoner labor.
The next day I was flown in a Piper Cub back to Cabanatuan to look for my drawings, landing at an airfield we had built as prisoner-labor.
Sergeant Donnelly, you may send up the flares signaling capitulation of the French airfield after a brief but fierce fight.
There was no German airfield in the Wadizam Pass—it was too narrow and rocky—but they would be radioing for fighters to the field at the rear, over the hill.
Suddenly swift fighter planes darted past them, swept low over the airfield with machine guns splattering their bullets over the hard earth, the two small planes, and the low hangar.
He telephoned the airfield to have a jet plane with lifters readied for take-off.
As Tom landed at Enterprises he was greeted by Bud, who came speeding out on theairfield by jeep.
Early the next morning Mr. Swift drove Tom to the Enterprises airfield to meet his friends.
He asked all hands to assemble on the Enterprises airfield at six the next morning for the flight to Fearing.
A short time later Chow came jouncing out to the airfield astride a motor scooter, hauling a cart loaded with supplies.
Jumping off again early in the afternoon in “blitz fashion,” they overran the airfieldat Gurguan Point, led by Major Richard K.
It was headed toward a gate in the high wire fence surrounding the airfield through which service trucks passed.
When the Japanese began the airfield (later to be called Henderson Field), the report of the coastwatchers went all the way up the American Joint Chiefs of Staff and across the desk of Admiral Ernest J.
Tonapah was at the foot of a mountain range and the airfield was out in the valley toward the next range.
We flew all the way back to England Just above the tree tops but never saw a train or airfield to shoot at.
When they turned and looked up they saw the fireball make a 90-degree turn over the airfield and disappear into the northwest.
In all about a dozen airfield towers reported the UFO as being low on the southwestern horizon and disappearing after about twenty minutes.
As he made a wide turn around the northern edge of the airfield he saw that the UFO was now turning south.
On the third run I was so close that the light blanked out the airfieldbelow me.
I said that our philosophy was that the fireball could have been two meteors: one that buzzed the C-54 and another that streaked across the airfield at Goose AFB.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "airfield" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: field; island; landing; port
