Balalae Island (or Ballale/Ballali) is an island of the Shortland Islands Group in Western Province, Solomon Islands. Ballale means border place in the...
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The Balalae Island mass graves was a war crime committed by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II against British prisoners of war. The mass graves...
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Balalae Airport is a small civil airport on Balalae island operated by Solomon Airlines. It is located in the northwest of the Solomon Islands, part of...
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continued the boycott. Andaman Islands occupation Japanese occupation of Attu Japanese occupation of Kiska Balalae Island occupation American cover-up of...
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Poporang and Balalae. NASA Satellite Imagery of Shortland Island Fauro Island Shortlands constituency "Shortland Islands". Solomon Islands Historical Encyclopaedia...
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April 1943 provided details of Admiral Yamamoto's forthcoming visit to Balalae Island, and on 18 April, a year to the day following the Doolittle Raid, his...
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John F. Bolt (section Marshall Islands)
Liberator bombers. The Japanese had 200 aircraft at Kahili Airfield and Balalae Island, opposed by only 50 aircraft from the U.S. squadrons in the area. The...
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Airport Qionghai, Hainan, China UTC+08:00 BAS AGGE Balalae Airport Balalae Island, Western, Solomon Islands UTC+11:00 BAT SBBT Chafei Amsei Airport Barretos...
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before being shipped at the end of 1942 to Balalae Island, in the Japanese-occupied British Solomon Islands with 517 other prisoners of war, in order to...
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state of Solomon Islands, sorted by location. Other airports within the Solomon Islands archipelago but outside of Solomon Islands can be found at list...
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Operation Vengeance (category 1943 in the Solomon Islands)
Rabaul Balalae Bougainville Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, commander of the Imperial Japanese Navy, scheduled an inspection tour of the Solomon Islands and New...
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Death Marches, and at least 20 men of 6th HAA Rgt were killed in the Balalae Island massacre. After the completion of the Burma Railway in March 1944, most...
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Zuikaku and Zuihō and of the Japanese naval air base on Balalae Island in the Shortland Islands by planes from the aircraft carriers Hiyō and Jun'yō —...
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Airfield, Bougainville. Henderson ditched the aircraft four miles east of Balalae Island and three of the crew of five were rescued by a Dumbo (air-sea rescue)...
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Kennedy Island Kennedy Island (local name Kasolo Island, also known as Plum Pudding Island), is a 1.17 hectares (2.9 acres), uninhabited island in Solomon...
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Solomon Airlines (category Airlines of the Solomon Islands)
Solomon Airlines is the flag carrier of Solomon Islands, based in Honiara. Solomon Airlines was established in 1962 as a charter airline by Laurie Crowley...
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Buka Airport (redirect from Buka Island Airport)
for both airlines serving the airport. Oceania portal Aviation portal Balalae Airport Bonis Airfield Buin Airport Kahili Airfield Kieta Airport USAAF...
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Nusatupe Airport (category Airports in the Solomon Islands)
Airport (IATA: GZO, ICAO: AGGN) is an airport on Nusatupe Island, near Gizo, Solomon Islands, and a regular Solomon Airlines destination. It was constructed...
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List of airports by ICAO code: A (category Solomon Islands transport-related lists)
Taro Island AGGD MBU Mbambanakira Airport Mbambanakira – AGGE BAS Balalae Airport Shortland Island – AGGF FRE Fera/Maringe Airport Fera Island Santa...
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Zuikaku and Zuihō and of the Japanese naval air base on Balalae Island in the Shortland Islands by planes from the aircraft carriers Hiyō and Jun'yō. —...
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Zuikaku and Zuihō and of the Japanese naval air base on Balalae Island in the Shortland Islands by planes from the aircraft carriers Hiyō and Jun'yō —...
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Mono Airport (category Airports in the Solomon Islands)
airport on Stirling Island in the Solomon Islands (IATA: MNY, ICAO: AGGO). Following the Allied invasion of the Northern Solomon Islands on October 25–27...
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Zuikaku and Zuihō and of the Japanese naval air base on Balalae Island in the Shortland Islands by planes from the aircraft carriers Hiyō and Jun'yō. —...
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revealed, would be flying from Rabaul to Balalae Airfield, on an island near Bougainville in the Solomon Islands, on the morning of April 18, 1943. President...
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Bougainville, and hit the Japanese defenses on the islands of Poporang and Balalae, in the Shortlands. TF 39, consisting of cruisers and destroyers, engaged...
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Island lies in the Western Province of Solomon Islands, west of New Georgia and Kolombangara, and is home to the provincial capital, Gizo. The island...
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to restore one of the rare Japanese aircraft he retrieved from Balalae, Solomon Islands, a Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero fighter, one of very few of the type still...
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State, Nigeria Agge, a village near Shashamane, Ethiopia Balalae Airport, in the Solomon Islands (ICAO code: AGGE) Agarose gel electrophoresis, a technique...
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the beachhead area. The Japanese airbases at Kahili, Kieta, Buka, and Balalae had been knocked out before the invasion but were quickly repaired and...
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