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Vunakanau is
situated on a
plateau just
outside Rabaul,
Papua New Guinea.
Vunakanau Airfield was used in
World War II. In the 1970s
Vunakau was proposed...
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Vunakanau Airfield was an
aerodrome located near
Vunakanau, East New Britain,
Papua New Guinea. The airfield...
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Lakunai and
Vunakanau airfields were pre-war
Australian strips.
Lakunai had an all-weather
runway of sand and
volcanic ash, and
Vunakanau was surfaced...
- 140–145. The nine
Zeros were
intended for the
Tainan Air
Group based at
Vunakanau Airfield.
Seven Nakajima B5N
torpedo bombers accompanied the
Zeros to...
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damaged by O'Hare's attacks. Of these,
Maeda and
Kogiku safely landed at
Vunakanau airdrome at 19:50,
while Mori
became lost in a
storm and
eventually ditched...
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forward observation post. The main
tasks of the
garrison were
protection of
Vunakanau, the main
Royal Australian Air
Force (RAAF)
airfield near Rabaul, and...
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Chitose Air Group, then
flying the
obsolete Mitsubishi A5M,
moved to
Vunakanau airfield on the
newly taken island of New Britain. The
squadron received...
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constructed by the
Royal Australian Air
Force as an
emergency landing strip for
Vunakanau Airfield and
consisted of an
unpaved 4,700 foot
single runway during World...
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between 53 and 75 P-38 Lightnings, drop 115
tonnes (115,000 kg) of
bombs on
Vunakanau airfield at Rabaul,
claiming 45 ****anese
aircraft shot down or destro****...
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Following the ****anese
surrender several ****anese
aircraft were
flown from
Vunakanau Airfield to
Jacquinot Bay Airfield. On 15
November 1945 an RAAF C-47 #13339...
