Green Island Airport 1944

**klnowak** · August 30th, 2016, 05:26

While waiting for a needed information to continue the Incheon Landing scenery, i decide to make another US airbase from World War II. Something that matches the Emirau Island 1944 i did in the past. So my decision was to do the Green Island Airbase (today its called Nissan Island Airport (AYIA) ) the US forces build up in 1944. From this airbase attacks are launched to Rabaul.

Green Island Airbase had been given two runways an everyone has got an own name. First one is called Lagoon Airfield.... the second one is called Ocean Airfield. Bothe togehter had been named as Green Island Airbase.

From Wikipedia : "The New Zealand 3rd Division landed on Nissan Island on 15 February 1944 as part of the Solomon Islands campaign. The U.S. Navy 22nd Construction Regiment landed with the New Zealanders and began building support facilities. Work on a fighter airstrip began on 20 February and by 5 March a coral-surfaced 5,000 feet (1,500 m) by 150 feet (46 m) fighter runway known as Lagoon Airfield was ready for use and aircraft carried out the first attack on Kavieng. In late March a parallel 6,000 feet (1,800 m) by 150 feet (46 m) bomber runway known as Ocean Airfield was ready for use, it was later lengthened to 7,300 feet (2,200 m). Additional airfield facilities such as road and taxiways and a tank farm were also constructed. Construction had been extremely difficuly with dense foliage and large trees needing to be removed, rock blasting was necessary, and all coral used for filling had to be quarried at distant locations."

I think it would not take to long to end this scenery. Islands are ready, landclasses are done and the airbase also is nearly ready. I will do a big airtraffic (like Emirau Islands 1944) for this one too.

First a little map that shows where this airbase took place.

Yust some pictures for now so you can see what it is like just in time.

Hope you will like this one as another place to take action in the pacific.

Greetings
Klaus