Seghe Airport (Seghe Airport)
Seghe Airport is an airport on Seghe in the Solomon Islands.
The Segi Point area was secured by the 4th Marine Raider Battalion on 30 June 1943 in the opening phase of the New Georgia Campaign. The 47th Naval Construction Battalion (Seabees) landed with the Marines and immediately began construction of a fighter airstrip. Bad weather and poor soil conditions delayed construction, but by 18 July a coral-surfaced 3300 ft by 150 ft runway was ready for use. By the end of July taxiways and revetments had been completed. In August the runway was widened to 200 ft and two 42,000 USgal gas tanks had been constructed and by September 52 hardstands had been completed.
The field was then used as a fighter strip to support the Rendova and Munda Point Landings.
USAAF units based at Segi Point included:
* 44th Pursuit Squadron operating P-40s
US Navy units based at Segi Point included:
* VB-305 operating SBDs
* VF-33 operating F6Fs
* VF-38 operating F6Fs
* VF-40 operating F6Fs
The Segi Point area was secured by the 4th Marine Raider Battalion on 30 June 1943 in the opening phase of the New Georgia Campaign. The 47th Naval Construction Battalion (Seabees) landed with the Marines and immediately began construction of a fighter airstrip. Bad weather and poor soil conditions delayed construction, but by 18 July a coral-surfaced 3300 ft by 150 ft runway was ready for use. By the end of July taxiways and revetments had been completed. In August the runway was widened to 200 ft and two 42,000 USgal gas tanks had been constructed and by September 52 hardstands had been completed.
The field was then used as a fighter strip to support the Rendova and Munda Point Landings.
USAAF units based at Segi Point included:
* 44th Pursuit Squadron operating P-40s
US Navy units based at Segi Point included:
* VB-305 operating SBDs
* VF-33 operating F6Fs
* VF-38 operating F6Fs
* VF-40 operating F6Fs
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The islands have been settled since at least some time between 30,000 and 28,800 BCE, with later waves of migrants, notably the Lapita people, mixing and producing the modern indigenous Solomon Islanders population. In 1568, the Spanish navigator Álvaro de Mendaña was the first European to visit them. Though not named by Mendaña, it is believed that the islands were called "the Solomons" by those who later received word of his voyage and mapped his discovery. Mendaña returned decades later, in 1595, and another Spanish expedition, led by Portuguese navigator Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, visited the Solomons in 1606. Britain defined its area of interest in the Solomon Islands archipelago in June 1893, when Captain Gibson, R.N., of HMS Curacoa (1878), declared the southern Solomon Islands a British protectorate. During World War II, the Solomon Islands campaign (1942–1945) saw fierce fighting between the United States, British Commonwealth forces and the Empire of Japan, including the Battle of Guadalcanal.
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SBD | Solomon Islands dollar | $ | 2 |
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EN | English language |