Lat
9° 25' 60S Long 159° 56' 60E Modern day capital
of Solomon Islands. Honiara did not exist as a town until
after the war when the British colonial government occupied the American
base infrastructure on Guadalcanal and created the town, as the new center of the colonial administration.
Lunga Point Anchorage
The ofshore waters was developed by American forces used as an anchorage for ships and staging area.
Peter Flahavin adds:
"if you drive up the road near henderson carpark to the beach at Lunga, you come upon the remains of metal barges and wood piers of the lunga point naval base. just a bit to the west is lunga lagoon, which was a major naval supply base. The initial supply landing point was at kukum beach on the existing jap pier there, but when the jap artillery started up that area was in range."
USS
Serpens AK-97
Sunk by accidental explosion January 29, 1945
USS
John Penn APA-23
Sunk by Japanese B5N Kate torpedo bombers on August 13, 1943
USS
Atlanta (CL-51)
Sunk during the "Naval Battle of Guadalcanal" on the night of November 12-13, 1942
Henderson
Field (Lunga Point, Honiara)
Japanese built, expanded by Americans, objective of Guadalcanal campaign
Fighter
1 (Lunga Field, The Cow Pasture)
Fighter strip built near Henderson, today abandoned
A6M2
Zero Manufacture
Number 3647 Tail
Number V-103
Crashed September 1942, discovered 1993
G4M1 Model 11 Betty Manufacture Number 1350
Crashed two miles south-west of Henderson