| 词条 | Ondonga Airfield |
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|name=Ondonga Airfield |partof = |location=Ondonga Island, New Georgia |coordinates={{Coord|08|15|54|S|157|12|00|E}} |image= |caption= |type=Military Airfield |code= |built=1943 |builder=Seebees |materials=Coral |height= |used= 1943-4 |demolished= |condition=abandoned |ownership= |controlledby=Royal New Zealand Air Force United States Navy |garrison= |commanders= |occupants= |battles=Bougainville Campaign Operation Cartwheel |events= }} Ondonga Airfield is a former World War II airfield on New Georgia in the Solomon Islands archipelago. HistoryWorld War IIThe Munda Point area was secured on 5 August 1943. While the rehabilitation and expansion of Munda Point Airfield was the first priority for the Seebees, the 37th and 82nd Naval Construction Battalions soon began building another fighter airfield on Ondonga Island across from Munda Point. Construction proceeded with difficulty as the island was covered with dense jungle over bog and the site was periodically shelled by Japanese artillery on Kolombangara Island and bombed by Japanese aircraft flying from Bougainville. After 25 days the Seebees had completed a coral-surfaced {{convert|4500|ft}} by {{convert|200|ft}} fighter runway.[1] By February 1944 the Seebees had completed a second parallel runway, roads, taxiways, hardstands, a control tower and a 12,000 barrel tank farm.[1]{{rp|266}} Royal New Zealand Air Force units based at Ondonga included:
US Navy units based at Ondonga included:
USMC units based at Ondonga included:
PostwarThe airfield is abandoned and overgrown with vegetation. See also
References1. ^1 {{Cite book|last=|first= |title=Building the Navy's Bases in World War II History of the Bureau of Yards and Docks and the Civil Engineer Corps 1940-1946| publisher=US Government Printing Office| year=1947| isbn=|page=265}} 2. ^1 2 3 4 {{Cite book|last=Ross|first=John |title=Royal New Zealand Air Force| series=Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939–45|publisher=Battery Press| location=Nashville|year=1993|origyear=1955|isbn=0898391873|url=http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH2AirF.html|page=325}} 3 : Pacific theatre of World War II|Airfields of the United States Navy|Military installations closed in the 1940s |
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