Next, the Marines would repulse the Japanese who harassed the secondary beachhead at Cape Merkus and secure the mountainous, jungle-covered interior of Cape Gloucester, south of the airfields and between the Green and Yellow Beaches.
Left behind was the 12th Defense Battalion, which continued to provide antiaircraft defense for the Cape Gloucester airfields until relieved by an Army unit late in May.
Always concerned about air cover for his amphibious operations, MacArthur planned to use the Marines to capture the airfields at Cape Gloucester.
Since the airfieldswere the obvious prize, Matsuda did not believe that the Marines would plunge into the muck and risk becoming bogged down short of their goal.
The progress toward the airfields seemed to indicate Japanese weakness in that area and possible strength in the vicinity of the Yellow Beaches and Borgen Bay.
The altered version earmarked Army troops for the landing on the southern coast, which Kreuger's staff shifted from Gasmata to Arawe, a site closer to Allied airfields and farther from Rabaul with its troops and aircraft.
When the bombers returned on the following day, not a single operational Japanese fighter remained at the airfields there.
In a campaign lasting four months, the 1st Marine Division had plunged into the unforgiving jungle and overwhelmed a determined and resolute enemy, capturing the Cape Gloucester airfields and driving the Japanese from western New Britain.
As early as 3 February, Rupertus concluded that the Japanese could no longer mount a counterattack on the airfields and began devoting all his energy and resources to destroying the retreating Japanese.
Airports or airfieldsthat are no longer recognizable (overgrown, no facilities, etc.
All of theseairfields were linked together by an intercom system.
Recovery plants worked three shifts a day to pile up great mounds of the white crystals, which were hauled to the airfields by trains and trucks.
Unless the Allies could capture suitable airfields closer to the Japanese base areas at Rabaul and Bougainville, the air war would be limited in range and effect.
The first step leading to the invasion of New Georgia was the occupation of the Russell Islands, 65 miles northwest of Guadalcanal, which would serve as a forward base on which airfields would be constructed.
Condon, recalled that ComAirSols routinely struck the airfields of southern Bougainville “with escorted bombers, night attacks by Navy and Marine Corps TBFs, and some mining at night of the harbors.
Map 9) San Juanico Strait Drive Toward Caibaan General Krueger wished to push rapidly through Leyte Valley and secure its important roads and airfields before the Japanese could regroup and offer a firm line of resistance.
He ordered the 16th Division to annihilate the American force, and, failing that, to interfere as much as possible with the use of Leyte airfields by the American Army.
Next to airfields and roads the construction of hospitals was given priority.
It was hoped that the fertile Leyte Valley, broad and flat, could be utilized for major airfields and base sites from which large-scale operations could be launched against the rest of the Philippines.
Airfields The importance of the development of the airfields cannot be overemphasized.
From 18 to 19 October the carrier aircraft of the Seventh Fleet protected the convoy and struck at small vessels and airfields in northern Mindanao as well as defense and communications installations and airfields on Leyte.
Two fighter groups were on Morotai, one heavy bomber group was on Noemfoor, off the north coast of New Guinea, and two heavy bomber groups were on Biak; they completed 175 sorties in strikes against airfields on Mindanao and the Visayan area.
In the latter part of November all construction work was stopped on the three airfields in the Burauen area, but not before considerable time and effort had been expended in futile attempts to make the airfields usable.
Both the Bayug and San Pablo airfields were on the Dulag-Burauen road.
Japanese control of the airfields would also facilitate the movement of Japanese supplies to the island and greatly assist the ground operations of the 35th Army.
For the next month reports flowed in to General Headquarters that the 16th Division was building coastal defenses and air-raid shelters, and improving the airfields and garrison defenses of the island.
The Southern Defense Force was to protect the Dulag-Burauen road and the airfieldsin the vicinity of Burauen.
No matter how great the surprise, some planes would get off the airfields at Truk and others would race in from other Jap strongholds.
There are emergency airfields around that will be in use tomorrow, and you can be sure that there’ll be planes from other Jap garrisons in this area.
By that time Allied airfields from all over eastern New Guinea as well as Australia and the Solomons would be sending planes to the attack.
Other crews received the airfields across the bay at Hatu and Lata and the antiaircraft batteries mounted in the hills along shore.
Iwo Jima’s airfields in American hands would pose an enormous threat to Japan.
Forbidding Iwo Jima had two redeeming features in 1945: the military value of its airfields and the psychological status of the island as a historical possession of Japan.
They are waiting for the tanks to move forward to blast the numerous pillboxes between Motoyama Airfields No.
Soon after, from airfieldson Guam, as well as those on Tinian, B-29s were blasting the Japanese home islands.
Then American planes could assure final neutralization of the Japanese airfields at Kahili, Buka, and Bonis airfields at the north and south ends of Bougainville.
Now they prepared to leave, as theairfields were being readied to reduce Rabaul and its environs.
The Seabees, working at a “feverish rate,” had miraculously carved three airfields out of the unbelievable morass that characterized the area.
In addition, it provided a natural defensive region once the Marines had landed and their airfields had been gouged out of the swamp and jungle.
The fast carriers struck Japanese airfields in Kyushu and Formosa time and again, but these numbered more than 100, and as usual the Japanese proved adept at camouflage.
They found no mines along the beaches, discovered the main bridge over the Bishi River still intact and--wonder of wonders--both airfields relatively undefended.
The Americans expected a ferocious defense of the Hagushi beaches and the airfields just beyond, followed by a general counterattack--then the battle would be over except for mop-up patrolling.
Both operations produced valuable objectives--airfields on Ie Shima, unrestricted access to the great port of Naha--but because they were ancillary to the larger campaign the two landings barely receive passing mention.
The Tenth Army’s first objective, therefore, became that of seizing Yontan and Kadena airfields to accommodate land-based fighter squadrons.
Other air units poured into the two airfields as well: air warning squadrons, night fighters, torpedo bombers, and an Army Air Forces fighter wing.
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