Location
Located at Chabai Plantation at Chabai, about 10 miles east
of Bonis.
Construction
The Japanese developed a single runway at this location in late 1943, but then abandoned after being bombed by
Allies.
Tom Blackburn in VF-17
The Jolly Rogers recalls:
"The Japanese worked furiously on a new strip at Chabai south of the Buka
Passage near Matchin Bay."
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