Airfield of the U.S. Air Force in Mindanao, Philippines (1941-1942)
Del Monte Airfield
Part of Far East Air Force
Mindanao, Philippines
A B-17D of the 30th Bombardment Squadron being loaded with 100 and 500-pound bombs probably at Del Monte Field, Mindanao, Philippines, early in 1942. Note the Fortress is parked in a rough, dirt area and the early M1917 Helmet and pre-war uniform worn by one of the ground crew, indicating the photo was taken in a combat area in the first few weeks of the war.
Del Monte Field (active 1941–1942) was a heavy bomber airfield of the Far East Air Force (FEAF) of the United States Army Air Forces, located on Mindanao in the Philippines. The airfield was located in a meadow of a Del Monte Corporation pineapple plantation.
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dispersal measure, to move its eight B-17s to the newly established DelMonteAirfield on the island of Mindanao, along with the eight B-17s of the 93rd...
traveled to the DelMonte plantation in Mindanao, where they remained overnight and were picked up the following day at DelMonteAirfield by two B-17 aircraft...
Pursuit Group withdrew to Mindanao Island and began operating from DelMonteAirfield with whatever aircraft were remaining. Those remaining on Luzon that...
Bukidnon, expelling them from Malaybalay, the provincial capital, DelMonteairfield and garrisons in Bukidnon in a period of six months in 1942-1943 and...
boats through stormy seas patrolled by Japanese warships, and reached DelMonteAirfield on Mindanao, where B-17s picked them up, and flew them to Australia...
runway. However, only one of the B-17s made it back to its base at DelMonteAirfield. Once the city of Legazpi was secure, Kimura sent his forces north...
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and Fritz Sauckel on eight counts. The U.S. Eighth Army captured DelMonteAirfield on Mindanao. The Security Committee at the United Nations Conference...
Philippine Army Air Corps on 30 April, and flew its last sortie out of DelMonteAirfield, accompanying a P-40 on a strafing attack of Japanese landings at...
Making his way to Mindanao, he learned the Japanese had already taken DelMonteAirfield, so he returned to Leyte with 11 other Americans.: 40–41 With 400...
Pursuit Group withdrew to Mindanao Island and began operating from DelMonteAirfield with whatever aircraft were remaining. The last of the group's aircraft...
under this category. All privately owned aerodromes (airports, airstrips, airfields) are outside of the CAAP's classification system. The old ATO system,...
Bukidnon, expelling them from Malaybalay, the provincial capital, DelMonteairfield and garrisons in Bukidnon in a period of six months in 1942-1943 and...
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ordered to withdraw from Clark to DelMonteAirfield, not just the two squadrons that deployed there. At DelMonte, they would be out of range of Japanese...
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were grounded on Taiwan by fog. On the 10th they struck Nichols and Del Carmen Airfields in full force in the early afternoon. The pattern set at Clark Field...
destroyed. Sixteen B-17s of the squadron had moved to DelMonte Field and San Marcelino Airfield and were spared being destroyed. Captain Colin P. Kelly...
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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