Naval Base Upolu

Naval Base Upolu
Location of Naval Base Upolu in Samoa ,  United States Navy 1940 to 1944
Location of Naval Base Upolu in Samoa
,  United States Navy
1940 to 1944
Map of Samoa
Map of Samoa
CapitalApia
13°50′00″S 171°45′44″W / 13.83333°S 171.76222°W / -13.83333; -171.76222
Time zoneUTC+13c (WST)
A Martin PBM Mariner plane is loaded on USS Chandeleur (AV-10)'s aft deck in Apia Harbor, Samoa, 15 February 1943. The nose of the plane had been damaged during a take off attempt due to wind and high sea.
Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, right, and Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander-in-Chief Pacific, center, talks with a Navy officer while inspecting US defenses at Upolu Island, Samoa, in January 1943.
Samoa map
Samoa Upolu
Upolu Island Beach

Naval Base Upolu was a naval base built by the United States Navy in 1942 to support the World War II effort. The base was located on Upolu Island, Samoa in the Western Pacific Ocean, part of the Samoan Islands's Naval Base Samoa. After the surprise attack on Naval Station Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the US Navy was in need of setting up more advance bases in the Pacific Ocean. At Naval Base Upolu the Navy built a sea port, an airbase and a seaplane base. [1] [2]

After the World War II's Pacific War war the airstrip was converted to civilian use. Today it is the Faleolo International Airport.

  1. ^ Built of US Navy basesUS Navy
  2. ^ "Straw | Operations & Codenames of WWII". codenames.info.