Mono Airport is an airport on Mono Island

Mono Island

Mono Island is the largest island of the Treasury Islands, Solomon Islands, at .- Geography :Mono island is a volcanic island in the northwest of the Solomon Islands. It is separated by the Blanche Harbour from Stirling Island and the other coral islands surrounding it. The village of Falamai is...

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Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands is a sovereign state in Oceania, east of Papua New Guinea, consisting of nearly one thousand islands. It covers a land mass of . The capital, Honiara, is located on the island of Guadalcanal...

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History

Following the Allied invasion of the Northern Solomon Islands on October 25–27, 1943, an airstrip was built on Stirling Island by the United States Navy 87th Construction battalion. This airfield was then used to support a campaign to neutralize Japanese air power at Rabaul

Rabaul

Rabaul is a township in East New Britain province, Papua New Guinea. The town was the provincial capital and most important settlement in the province until it was destroyed in 1994 by falling ash of a volcanic eruption. During the eruption, ash was sent thousands of metres into the air and the...

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Also known as "Coronus Strip", the airfield was used by:

• 42d Bombardment Group, 20 January-August 1944
• 347th Fighter Group, 15 January-15 August 1944
• Special Task Air Group STAG-1 (TDR)
• VBM-413 (PBJs)
• VMD-254 (B-24)

Stirling Airfield is still in use today by the Solomons Airlines.

See also

• USAAF in the South Pacific
  United States Army Air Forces in the South Pacific Area
  During World War II, the United States Army Air Forces engaged in combat against the Empire of Japan in the South Pacific Area. As defined by the War Department, this consisted of the Pacific Ocean areas which lay south of the Equator between longitude 159° East and 110° West...
  
  

External links

• Solomon Airlines Routes