Posts made by timerover51

You could try and do with the Japanese did historically, and that was to build on Bougainville first, and then on New Georgia.  They did establish a small floatplane base on Santa Isabel, but never built any airstrips on Choiseul, Santa Isabel, or Malaita.  Having been there, there is really no place on those islands for air strips, without massive amounts of earth-moving and first buiilding a harbor to put supplies ashore, and then somehow building some sort of road net.  The Japanese did a lot of their airfield building by hand, with a minimum of mechanical equipment.