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Ie Shima Airfield 伊江島補助飛行場
Ie Shima, Ryukyu Islands, Japan
Aerial photo of Ie Shima Island, off the northwest coast of Okinawa, 1945 looking east over the 77th Division landing beaches, toward the Pinnacle.
Ie Shima Auxiliary Airfield (伊江島補助飛行場, Iejima Hojo Hikōjō) is a training facility, managed by the United States Marine Corps and a former World War II airfield complex on Ie Shima, an island located off the northwest coast of Okinawa Island in the East China Sea. The airfield as such was inactivated after 1946 but part of the former airfield is still used as a training facility for parachute drops and vertical take off and landing aircraft such as the F-35. The facility is referenced as FAC6005 by Okinawa Prefecture.
IeShima Auxiliary Airfield (伊江島補助飛行場, Iejima Hojo Hikōjō) is a training facility, managed by the United States Marine Corps and a former World War II...
Iejima (伊江島, Iejima, Okinawan: Ii shima), previously romanized in English as IeShima, is an island in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, lying a few kilometers...
on the island of Iejima in Ie, Kunigami District, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. The runways were part of the IeShimaAirfield complex built during World...
Seabee repaired the remaining airfields at IeShimaAirfield, Futema Airfield, Machinato Airfield and Tsuken ShimaAirfield. By August, the troops peaked...
Captain Charles C. Kegelman attacked four airfields in the Netherlands. Alerted to the attack, the airfield defences were prepared for the raid when it...
1 July 1945 it began flying airstrikes from IeShima, targeting enemy ships, railroad bridges, airfields, factories, and barracks in Japan, Korea, and...
November 1944 – 7 April 1945 IeShimaAirfield, Okinawa, 19 May 1945 Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, c. 17 November 1945 Yontan Airfield, Okinawa, 29 January 1946...
mainland, as well as flying escort missions in the area. Moving to IeShimaAirfield in August 1945, the 8th flew several missions against the Japanese...
staging field for flights to Okinawa. In August 1945, the group moved to IeShima, in the Ryukyus, from where the fighter squadrons flew surveillance missions...
began operations from IeShimaAirfield in June. It engaged in dive-bombing and strafing attacks on factories, radar stations, airfields, small ships and other...
to August 1946 while it was stationed in the Ryukyu Islands, first on IeShima and later on Okinawa. Following the war, the 34th FS was inactivated on...
missions against airfields, industrial installations and enemy installations in China and Formosa. In July 1945 it moved to IeShimaAirfield, from which it...
1944) McGuire Field San Jose, Mindoro, Philippines, 20 December 1944 IeShimaAirfield, Ryuku Islands, 5 August 1945 Fukuoka Air Base, Japan, 25 November...
missions against airfields, industrial installations and enemy installations in China and Formosa. In July 1945 it moved to IeShimaAirfield, from which it...
(Territory), 9 February 1943 East Field, Saipan, Mariana Islands, June 1944 IeShimaAirfield, Okinawa, c. 30 April 1945 Okinawa, November–December 1945 301st Fighter...
operations in the Philippines until the end of operations there, moving to IeShimaAirfield near Okinawa in preparation for the planned American invasion of Japan...
missions against airfields, industrial installations and enemy installations in China and Formosa. In July 1945 it moved to IeShimaAirfield, from which it...
island's interior. On 10 August 1945, the 805th completed runway "B" on IeShimaAirfield; the runway was 7000 feet long and was the first all-American built...
Bucholz Army Airfield (IATA: KWA, ICAO: PKWA, FAA LID: KWA) is a United States Army airfield located on Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands. Its position...
November 1944 – 30 May 1945 IeShimaAirfield, Okinawa, 31 July 1945 Kadena Airfield, Okinawa, 29 November 1945 Naha Airfield, Okinawa, 14 August 1947 –...
missions to Southeast China and attacked railways on Formosa. Began moving to IeShima near Okinawa in August 1945 but the war ended before the movement was completed...
French Indochina in April 1945. In July 1945, the squadron moved to IeShimaAirfield in the Ryuku Islands, from which it was able to attack shipping in...
August 1944 McGuire Field, Mindoro, Philippines, 26 January 1945 IeShimaAirfield, Okinawa, c. 11 August 1945 Fort William McKinley, Luzon, Philippines...
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