| Harmon Airfield Depot Field | |
|---|---|
| Part of Twentieth Air Force | |
| Coordinates | 13°32′11.94″N 144°49′19.74″E / 13.5366500°N 144.8221500°E |
| Type | Military Airfield |
| Site information | |
| Controlled by | United States Army Air Forces |
| Site history | |
| Built | 1944 |
| In use | 1944-1946 |
Harmon Airfield is a former World War II airfield on Guam in the Mariana Islands in the Central Pacific.
Originally named "Depot Field", it was renamed in honor of Lieutenant General Millard F. Harmon, who on a routine flight from Hawaii in March 1945 over the Marshall Islands, his plane was lost. Despite the most intensive search by Army and Navy planes and surface vessels, no trace of the plane was ever fund. On 27 Feb 1946, he was declared officially dead.
Harmon Field was the headquarters for the XXI Bomber Command and later Twentieth Air Force which directed the B-29 Superfortress strategic bombing campaign against the Japanese Home Islands. It was also a B-29 aircraft depot and maintenance facility.
Used operationally as a B-29 base after the war, the airfield closed in 1949 and today has been redeveloped as part of the Tangussion Beach park.
History
Major USAAF units assigned
See also
References
This article incorporates public domain material from 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 0892010924.
- www.pacificwrecks.com
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