The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.

Monday, January 25, 2021

Puerta Princesa Airfield, Palawan island, Philippines-- Part 3

After capture.

US Army and Navy engineers of the 1897th Engineer Aviation Battalion and the 84th Naval Construction Battalion immediately began to rehabilitate the facility and completed their work on the facility and completed their work on March 18, 1945.

The Army and Navy engineers further expanded the runway by laying steel Marston Mats and concrete, adding air control facilities and tanks to store aviation fuel and oil.

--GreGen


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