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Momote Airport (IATA: MAS, ICAO: AYMO) is an
airport on Los
Negros Island in the
Admiralty Islands,
Papua New Guinea. It also
serves M**** Island, which...
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Momote Airfield.
Seabees completed all
Momote Airfield construction and
improvements on June 1, 1944 and
turned the 7,800-feet
runway Momote Airfield...
- limestone. Lorengau, the
capital of M**** Province, is
located on the island.
Momote Airport, the
terminal for M**** Province, is
located on
nearby Los Negros...
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constructed an
airstrip on
Lorengau and
commenced another,
known as
Momote Airstrip, at the
Momote Plantation on Los Negros.
Lorengau was used as a
staging point...
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where they were to make a
reconnaissance in
force and if feasible,
capture Momote Airfield and
secure a
beachhead for the
reinforcements that
would follow...
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Kittyhawks on
Momote Airfield, 8
March 1944
Momote Airfield with
Seabees working at
night in 1944. CB 40
worked day and
night on the Los
Negros Momote Airfield...
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Rabaul (Tokua Airport) Buka (Buka Airport)
Kavieng (Kavieng Airport) M**** (
Momote Airport)
Alotau (Gurney Airport)
Flight International 27
March 2007 "Global...
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contains the main
airport of M****
Province on its
eastern coastline, at
Momote. It is
connected to Lorengau, the
capital of the province, on M**** Island...
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Admiralty Islands,
units landing at Los
Negros on 29
February 1944.
Momote airstrip was
secured against great odds.
Attacks by ****anese were thrown...
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deploy it to
support the
infantry in
offensive operations. At the
battle of
Momote Airstrip in the Admiralties, the US Army's 5th
Cavalry machine gunners killed...
