I have been lucky in that I lived outside the US and traveled a lot on business.

The most remote site I visited connected with war was Qoin Hill Airfield on the northern side of the island of Efate in the New Hebrides Islands... Now "Vanuatu".

Vanuatu is a group of many islands about 1000 miles east of northern Australia. See top map.

Apart from about 270,000 people there isn't much there except tree, cows, pigs and fish. Beautiful crystal clear water and warm year around.

Vanuatu became important in mid 1942 When the Japanese began building an airfield on a remote island called Guadalcanal. It was the closest non-Japanese land to the Solomon Islands.


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