Location
Located at the southern corner of Moen Island. This installation was a seaplane base
Seaplane Base Construction
A
seaplane base begun on November 1941 and completed April
1943. It had a concrete
ramp, and apron 200 x 1,500 feet and a secondary ramp 240
x 400 feet. Seaplanes were then taken ashore with dollys with power operated winches. Facillities included two steel hangers, torpedo storage, radio recieving station, munitions storage, fuel storage and a boat and seaplane basin. Also, barracks and anti-aircraft. Later, tunnels were dug into the nearby Mt. Teroken, including storage for two seaplanes with their wings folded.
Airfield Construction
After the February 1944 Operation Hailstone strike, a fighter airstrip was built 225' from the seaplane base with its runway parallel it. Two coral surfaced strip were built on fill, and eventually extended to connect with the seaplane base. The runways were 190 ' x 3,250' when completed. The adjacent Mt. Teroken were tunneled with caves for storage.
Today
Disused since the war. The remains of bunkers are near the Continental Hotel on the Southern
tip of Moen.
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