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AF Airfields - Then & Now |
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7-Mile Field is now Port Moresby's international Airport, as seen here in Deember 2003. |
The site of the old Berry Drome, or 12-Mile as it was known. This is the old main runway, now opposite Bomana Police Training College |
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John Douglas stands on a WW2 cement platform overlooking Durand Drome. In 2006 the field was all still there - untouched - including runways, revetments and gun pits |
An old oven at Durand Drome |
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A former Australian AA gun pit at Durand Drome - there are dozens of similar sites in the area |
Air Niugini pilot Keith Hopper walks in one of he former hoseshoe-shaped revetments at Durand Drome (17-Mile) |
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In the center of the page lies part of the former taxiway complex at Nadzab Drome, about 20 miles West of Lae, Papua New Guinea |
The former main runway at Dobodura in January 2006 |
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If you look carefully in the center of the photo you can see the former hoseshoe revetments at Girua airfield, one of the seventeen airfields which comprised the WW2 runway complex at Dobodura. This airport now services Popondetta in PNG |
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