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    Kaiapit Airfield Morobe Province PNG

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September 25, 1943

Location
Located at Kaiapit.

Construction
Prewar colonial era airstrip.

Wartime History
In middle 1942, the single airstrip was described as 1500 x 100 x 900 yards. Facilities included one house, native shacks, excellent approaches, native foods (sweet potatoes, banans, pig) can be lengthed to 1500 yd. sq.

After the area was occupied by the Allies, this strip was surveyed by US Army Engineers, but only preliminary preparations for further development were made to expand the airfield to 6,000' x 100' and several parallel runways.

Further development of Kaiapit Airfield was abandoned by the US Army on January 8, 1944 when a new plan of operations deemed it unessential to the Allied war effort.

References
Notes about New Guinea airfields, recorded circa May - July, 1942 by Oliver C. Doan via Jean Doan research Edward Rogers
Engineers in Theater Operations [Pacific] "Advance Area Airdromes 31 January 1944", Map No. 24

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