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

Mokerang Airfield
Part of Thirteenth Air Force
Located on Los Negros Island, Admiralty Islands, Papua New Guinea.
Mokerang Airfield is located in Papua New Guinea
Mokerang Airfield
Mokerang Airfield
Mokerang Airfield, Papua New Guinea
Coordinates01°58′51.6″S 147°22′40.8″E / 1.981000°S 147.378000°E / -1.981000; 147.378000
TypeMilitary airfield
Site information
Controlled byUnited States Army Air Forces
Site history
Built1944
In use1944-1945

History

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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 and Seabee 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 as part of Manus Naval Base.

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

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