Piva Airfield
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Piva Airfield is a former World War II airfield on Bougainville Island in the Solomon Islands archipelago.
SBDs of VC-40 sortie from Piva Uncle Airfield for a strike on Rabaul, 6 April 1944
F4Us of VF-17 at Piva, February 1944
RAAF Boomerang with RNZAF Corsairs at Piva in January 1945
Torokina Airfield
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Torokina Airfield, also known as Cape Torokina Airfield, is a former World War II airfield located at Cape Torokina, Bougainville.
Piva Airfield
…Naval Construction Battalions landed with the Marines and the 71st Battalion was tasked with establishing a small fighter airfield that would become Torokina Airfield. On 26 November 1943 the 36th Naval Construction Battalion arrived on Bougainville and on 29 November they started work on a 8,000 feet (2,400 m) by…
Aerial view of Torokina Airfield in December 1943
SBDs and F4Us at Torokina, December 1943