Owi Airfield is a former World War II airfield located on Owi Island in the Schouten Islands, Indonesia. The airfield was ordered built by General MacArthur...
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influence#Terminology Owi Airfield, Schouten Islands, Indonesia; a WWII USAAF airfield of the South West Pacific Theatre Ottawa Municipal Airport (FAA identifier OWI), KS...
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and the Bismarck Archipelago from bases in Australia, New Guinea, and Owi Airfield, Indonesia between August 1942 and November 1944. While there it earned...
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operate. They arranged the capture of the nearby island of Owi on 2 June and built Owi Airfield comprising two 7,000-ft airstrips there. An advanced echelon...
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June 1944 Kornasoren Airfield[citation needed] Noemfoor, Schouten Islands, Netherlands East Indies, 4 August 1944 Owi Airfield, Schouten Islands, Netherlands...
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Southwest Pacific, September 1944; received P-61s in October 1944 at Owi Airfield, NEI. Operated in Netherlands East Indies, Philippines, Okinawa. Inactivated...
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United States Army Air Forces in the South West Pacific Theatre (section Airfields and major unit assignments)
Allied ground forces, the USAAF Fifth Air Force established a series of airfields, some at existing facilities, but most were carved out of the jungle to...
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March 1942 Nadzab Airfield, New Guinea, 15 June 1944 Owi Airfield, Schouten Islands, Netherlands East Indies, 10 August 1944 Bayug Airfield, Leyte, Philippines...
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US Naval Advance Bases (category World War II airfields in the Pacific Ocean Theater)
runways Biak, Mios Woendi and Padaido Lagoon, New Guinea, including Owi Airfield and 2nd runway, during over to Dutch Navy. Seaplane and PT boat base...
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Naval Base Brisbane (category World War II airfields in the Pacific Ocean Theater)
PT Boat Base Oro Bay Airfield Naval Base Lae - Landing at Lae Naval Base Mios Woendi at Mios Woendi PT Boat Base and Owi Airfield Naval Base Woodlark Island...
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