Mono Airport is an airport on Stirling Island in the

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Following the Allied invasion of the Northern Solomon Islands on October 25–27, 1943, an airstrip was built on Stirling Island by the 87th Naval Construction Battalion. Stirling Airfield was then used to support a campaign to neutralize Japanese air power at

Rabaul Rabaul () is a township in the East New Britain province of Papua New Guinea, on the island of New Britain. It lies about 600 kilometres to the east of the island of New Guinea. Rabaul was the provincial capital and most important settlement in ...

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

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, 20 January–August 1944 * 347th Fighter Group, 15 January-15 August 1944 * Special Task Air Group STAG-1 (TDR) *

VMB-413 Marine Fighting Squadron 413 (VMF-413) was a fighter squadron of the Marine Forces Reserve during the Cold War. It descended from bombing squadron VMB-413, which was the Marine Corps' first medium bomber squadron and had fought during World War I ...

operating PBJs * VMD-254 operating PB4Ys Stirling Airfield is still in use today by the Solomons Airlines.

References

* Maurer, Maurer (1983). Air Force Combat Units Of World War II. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History. . *

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Airports in the Solomon Islands Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces in the Pacific Ocean theatre of World War II {{Solomons-struct-stub

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