A Martin PBM Mariner plane is loaded on USS Chandeleur (AV-10)'s aft deck in Apia Harbor, Samoa, 15 February 1943. The nose of the plane had been damaged during a take off attempt due to wind and high sea.Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, right, and Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander-in-Chief Pacific, center, talks with a Navy officer while inspecting US defenses at Upolu Island, Samoa, in January 1943.Samoa mapSamoa UpoluUpolu Island Beach
Naval Base Upolu was a naval base built by the United States Navy in 1942 to support the World War II effort. The base was located on Upolu Island, Samoa in the Western Pacific Ocean, part of the Samoan Islands's Naval Base Samoa. After the surprise attack on Naval Station Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the US Navy was in need of setting up more advance bases in the Pacific Ocean. At Naval Base Upolu the Navy built a sea port, an airbase and a seaplane base. [1][2]
After the World War II's Pacific War war the airstrip was converted to civilian use. Today it is the Faleolo International Airport.
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NavalBaseUpolu was a navalbase built by the United States Navy in 1942 to support the World War II effort. The base was located on Upolu Island, Samoa...
of state. During World War II, the US Navy built NavalBaseUpolu on the island. The island of Upolu was hit by a tsunami at 06:48:11 local time on 29...
343; -170.785 NavalBaseUpolu at Upolu Island, advanced Base (1942–1944) FPO#129 Upolu Seaplane Base Faleolo Airbase Palmyra Island Naval Air Station,...
21°21′23″N 157°57′53″W / 21.356365°N 157.964705°W / 21.356365; -157.964705 NavalBase Hawaii was a number of United States Navy bases in the Territory of Hawaii...
III. During World War II the United States Navy built and operated NavalBaseUpolu from 1941 to 1944. Apia is situated on a natural harbour at the mouth...
Battalion subsequently constructed an airfield and NavalBaseUpolu. It became an auxiliary field of U.S. Naval Station Tutuila in the Samoa Defense Group Area...
Shipping arrivals declined after February 1944. Naval Station Tutuila supported the near by NavalBaseUpolu, the two bases had the US Navy code name Operation...
APA-17. She then carried out a series of training landings at NavalBaseUpolu, Upolu, American Samoa, between 9 April and 10 May 1943, and then later...
American force during the battle at Apia. United States Marines and a naval gun in Upolu, 1899. Samoan warriors and American servicemen during the Siege of...
nicknamed the "Rainbow Five." During the war the battalion defended Tutuila, Upolu, Savai'i and Nanumea and took part in combat operations at Anguar. The 7th...
was a German protectorate from 1900 to 1920, consisting of the islands of Upolu, Savai'i, Apolima and Manono, now wholly within the Independent State of...
February when the Peacock and the Flying Fish briefly bombarded the island of Upolu, Samoa following the death of an American merchant sailor on the island...
von Werner [de] occupied Falealili and Saluafata on the Samoan island of Upolu "in the name of the Empire". The German occupation of these places was revoked...
Marine Corps battalions charged with coastal and air defense of advanced naval bases during World War II. They maintained large anti-ship guns, anti-aircraft...
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at Mulifanua on Upolu. The Mulifanua site, where 4,288 pottery shards have been found and studied, has a "true" age of c. 1000 BCE based on C14 dating....
subordinated to a government on the western, German-controlled island of Upolu. Both of these governments were favorable toward the cession. The inhabitants...
party landed and burned towns after the murder of an American seaman on Upolu.[RL30172] 1842: Mexico: Commodore Thomas ap Catesby Jones, in command of...
Piula Theological College was established in Lufilufi on the north coast of Upolu island in Samoa and serves as the main headquarters of the Methodist church...
(British) Samoa after Faleolo airfield was completed in July 1942 to protect Upolu and Savai'i islands. The original runway alignments were 09/27 (6,080 feet...
Fagaloa is located on the north eastern coast of Upolu island in Samoa. The area is a significant region of conservation and culture. The bay is situated...
defeated in the wars that ravaged much of Upolu for centuries. It was also used as a place to which Upolu rulers banished political opponents. In 1722...
make the Pola Island area a public park. The dredge Palolo was hired from Upolu in January 1966 in order to dredge sand for Utulei Beach. A specialist in...
at Mulifanua on Upolu. The Mulifanua site, where 4,288 pottery shards have been found and studied, has a "true" age of c. 1000 BC based on radiocarbon...
plantations for coconut, cacao and hevea rubber, especially on the island of Upolu where German firms monopolised copra and cocoa bean processing. In 1865...
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