Motobu Airfield

Motobu Airfield
Motobu Airfield
Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, Japan
Type Military airfield
Coordinates 26°41009.15N 127°5323.90E / 26.685875°N 127.889972°E / 26.685875; 127.889972
Built April 1945
In use 1945
Controlled by United States Army Air Forces

Motobu Airfield is a World War II airfield on the Motobu Peninsula of Okinawa, near the East China Sea coast. The airfield was deactivated after 1945.

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History

The airfield was built in April 1945 by the United States Army Corps of Engineers and United States Navy Seabees as a combat airfield to support the Army and Marine Corps ground forces during the Battle of Okinawa. It had a 7,000' x 100' single runway and was used as the support field for Headquarters, Fifth Air Force and its subordinate commands on Okinawa from August through October 1945 until they moved to Honshu, Japan for postwar occupation duty.

Units assigned

  • Headquarters, Fifth Air Force*, August 4September 25, 1945
  • Headquarters, V Bomber Command*, AugustOctober 1945
  • Headquarters, V Fighter Command*, AugustOctober 1945
  • Headquarters, 308th Bombardment Wing*, June 16September 22, 1945

.* Assigned to nearby town of Hamasaki and used Motobu Airfield for air operations.

  • Headquarters, 3d Bombardment Group, A-20 Havoc, August 6September 8, 1945
8th Bombardment Squadron, August 7October 26, 1945
13th Bombardment Squadron, August 7October 10, 1945
89th Bombardment Squadron, August 6September 8, 1945
90th Bombardment Squadron, August 6September 8, 1945
  • Headquarters, 380th Bombardment Group, B-24 Liberator, August 9November 28, 1945
528th Bombardment Squadron, August 8November 28, 1945
529th Bombardment Squadron, August 18November 28, 1945
530th Bombardment Squadron, August 10November 28, 1945
531st Bombardment Squadron, August 15November 28, 1945
2d Bombardment Squadron, August 18November 23, 1945
19th Bombardment Squadron, August 14November 23, 1945
33d Bombardment Squadron, August 15November 23, 1945
408th Bombardment Squadron, August 21November 23, 1945
672d Bombardment Squadron, August 17November 3, 1945
673d Bombardment Squadron, August 18November 4, 1945
674th Bombardment Squadron, August 15November 1, 1945
675th Bombardment Squadron, August 17November 5, 1945

In addition to the Army units, several Navy aviation squadrons used the airfield. It's postwar use is undetermined. Today, parts of the runway can still be seen on aerial photography.

See also

  • USAAF in Okinawa

References

 This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the Air Force Historical Research Agency.

  • Maurer, Maurer (1983). Air Force Combat Units Of World War II. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-89201-092-4.

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