Barakoma Airfield

Barakoma Airfield is a former World War II airfield on Vella Lavella in the Solomon Islands archipelago.

Barakoma Airfield
Barakoma, Vella Lavella
Barakoma Airfield December 1943
Coordinates07°54′46.8″S 156°42′21.6″E
TypeMilitary Airfield
Site information
Controlled byUnited States Marine Corps
Conditionabandoned
Site history
Built1943
Built bySeebees
In use1943-4
MaterialsCoral
Battles/warsBougainville Campaign
Operation Cartwheel

History

World War II

The U.S. 35th Infantry Regiment landed on Vella Lavella on 15 August 1943 as part of the Solomon Islands campaign. The 58th Naval Construction Battalions landed with the Army and began building support facilities despite frequent Japanese air attacks. In August 1943 the Seebees surveyed and cleared a site for an airfield and began building a coral-surfaced 4,000 feet (1,200 m) by 200 feet (61 m) fighter runway. Airfield facilities such as a signal tower, operations room, aviation-gasoline tanks, and camp for operating personnel, were completed in September and the first landing was made on 24 September. By November 1943 an aviation-gasoline tank farm of six 1,000-barrel tanks, with a sea-loading line was operational.[1]

US Navy units based at Barakoma included:

USMC units based at Barakoma included:

TBF at Barakoma

On 15 June 1944 the airfield was abandoned and all salvageable materials were dismantled and removed by 12 July 1944.[1]:267

Postwar

The airfield is overgrown with vegetation.

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See also

References
  1. Building the Navy's Bases in World War II History of the Bureau of Yards and Docks and the Civil Engineer Corps 1940-1946. US Government Printing Office. 1947. p. 266. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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