Orote Field is a former air base in the United States territory of Guam built by the Empire of Japan with Chamorro forced labor during the Japanese occupation of Guam (1941-1944). It is separate from the Marine Corps amphibious airplane base at located at Sumay village that was operational from 1921 to 1931. Following the liberation of Guam in 1944, the U.S. military repaired the field for further use in the Pacific War.
Located on Naval Base Guam, Orote Field was largely abandoned after World War II except for occasional training exercises. One major event in 1975 was Operation New Life, when a tent city for tens of thousands of South Vietnamese refugees was erected at the field. The field was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
^"National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
OroteField is a former air base in the United States territory of Guam built by the Empire of Japan with Chamorro forced labor during the Japanese occupation...
The Orote Peninsula is a four kilometer-long peninsula jutting from the west coast of the United States territory of Guam. A major geologic feature of...
threat. The Hellcats arrived while aircraft were still launching from OroteField. Minutes later, additional radar contacts were seen, which were later...
personnel processed at NAS Agana, Brewer Field. The tent camp was located on OroteField, an abandoned airstrip on the Orote Peninsula within Naval Base Guam...
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on Guam: Orote, on the Orote Peninsula, FPO 939 Base on Guam: Agana, FPO 943 Kagman Field, FPO 958 Marpi Point Field, FPO 959 Kobler Field, FPO 957 Naval...
80-G-247812. Capture of Orote Peninsula, 25-30 July 1944. In: Cyril J. O'Brien: Liberation: Marines in the Recapture of Guam. Capture of Orote Peninsula. In: Drive...
bounded by Cabras Island and the Glass Breakwater to the north and the Orote Peninsula in the south. Naval Base Guam and the Port of Guam are the two...
the closing months of the war it maintained its headquarters at Hickam Field. The command however, deployed most of its combat units to the Central Pacific...
its mission of providing air defense for OroteField and provide flanking artillery fire for Marines on the Orote Peninsula and in the Northern part of the...
later the squadron's SCR-270 radar was operational on the south end of OroteField. The squadron operated two long range search radars (SCR-270s), one ground...
Japanese crossfire. On 21 July, the Americans landed on both sides of the Orote Peninsula. On the western side of Guam, the Americans endeavored to cut...
Kong Hong Kong → Hagåtña, Guam Yigo (Andersen Air Force Base) Santa Rita (Orote Peninsula – U.S. Naval Base Guam) Humåtak (Fort Soledad) Episode summary...
These include: U.S. Naval Base Guam, U.S. Navy (Santa Rita), comprising the Orote Peninsula, additional lands, and with jurisdiction of the majority of Apra...
Guam. In October 1944 an advance echelon of twenty-six men landed D+6 at Orote, Guam. The balance of the battalion soon followed. Of the projects there...
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