Mokerang Airfield

Mokerang Airfield
	Part of Thirteenth Air Force
	Located on Los Negros Island, Admiralty Islands, Papua New Guinea.
	Mokerang Airfield Mokerang Airfield, Papua New Guinea
Coordinates	01°58′51.6″S 147°22′40.8″E
Type	Military airfield
Site information
Controlled by	United States Army Air Forces
Site history
Built	1944
In use	1944-1945

Mokerang Airfield, was an airfield on the northwest tip of Los Negros Island, 5 miles (8.0 km) NNW of Momote Airfield.

History

It was built by the Imperial Japanese at Mokerang Plantation shortly after Lorengau Airfield during World War II and liberated during the Battle of Los Negros as part of the Admiralty Islands campaign.

The 836th Engineer Aviation Battalion constructed two runways 8,000 feet (2,400 m) long × 150 feet (46 m) wide and 500-foot (150 m) overruns at each end, and the 104th Naval Construction Battalion and 46th Naval Construction Battalion built the taxiways and dispersal areas.

The runways had a bearing WNW/ESE 114 degrees/294 degrees magnetic. A storage depot for 30,000 barrels of fuel was stockpiled at Mokerang.

The airfield was abandoned at the end of the war and has been reclaimed by vegetation.

Units based at Mokerang

13th Air Force (13th Air Task Force)
307th Bombardment Group HQ
- 424th Bombardment Squadron (B-24s)
- 370th Bombardment Squadron (B-24s)
- 371st Bombardment Squadron (B-24s)
- 372nd Bombardment Squadron (B-24s)
XIII Bomber Command, 13th Air Force
18th Fighter Group, 419th Night Fighter Squadron (detachment) P-61s

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