Port Moresby Airfield Complex

Port Moresby Airfield Complex
Port Moresby, New Guinea
Jackson Airfield (7 Mile Drome). Primary airfield in the Port Moresby Airfield Complex, 1943
Port Moresby Airfield Complex is located in Papua New Guinea
Port Moresby Airfield Complex
Port Moresby Airfield Complex
Location of Port Moresby Airfield Complex (Jackson Field)
Coordinates09°26′36″S 147°13′12″E / 9.44333°S 147.22000°E / -9.44333; 147.22000
Site history
Built1942
In use1942-1945
Battles/warsBattle of New Guinea
Garrison information
Garrison 
USAAF Fifth Air Force
Royal Australian Air Force

The Port Moresby Airfield Complex was a World War II military airfield complex, built near Port Moresby in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea. It was used during the Battle of New Guinea as a base of Allied air operations primarily in 1942 and early 1943. It later became a support base as the battle moved to the north and western part of New Guinea. It was closed and the facility turned over to civil authorities after the end of the War in September 1945.

This complex of airfields is historically significant as it was from these airfields that the Royal Australian Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces supported Allied ground forces in the Battle of New Guinea. It represented the changing fortunes of war in the Pacific and the end of the Japanese expansion in the Southwestern Pacific during World War II.