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is there any way you could also still add the towering Munda hill (Kokengola Hill) on the Munda airstrip? It was perhaps the single most important feature on the airfield and one of the central Allied targets for their invasion.

Sure, I'll give it a try ... I haven't done much real terrain height altering so far other than smoothing river valleys and the occasional coastline, but I'll try and make a hill near the airport.

Odd it doesn't show up on the satellite DEM data ... maybe it's been flattened in the post-war years?

And if anyone has any suggestions for the airfields themselves, feel free to send a mis file for instance with placed objects.

From what i could gather of photos from Pacific Wrecks, these were very basic strips and so i only placed some masking nets, tents and some shacks and a small building or two with a small fuel tank.

Hi Agracir, According to Pacific wrecks, the early 1943 Munda had taxi strips around the airstrip even in early 1943. Is there any way you could add them? It doesn't seem historicall accurate without them. Thanks
pictures:

http://www.pacificwrecks.com/airfields/ ... hotos.html
http://www.pacificwrecks.com/airfields/ ... rview.html
http://www.pacificwrecks.com/airfields/ ... ombed.html
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Secondly, for Segi airstrip: Segi had taxiways built by the end of July according to Hyperwar (it was invaded by the Amvericans in June):It is inaccurate according to the accounts not to have taxiways from late July onward... ...unless you are modelling the earliest days of the barely finished Segi strip...(Maybe you are!!!). From July 18 to the end of July the taxiways were being built according to Hyperwar.

"Segi Point.--In the wake of two small reconnaissance parties, 17 officers and 477 men of the 47th Battalion landed at Segi Point. No enemy resistance was encountered and unloading operations were begun immediately. Before the day was over work was started on clearing an airstrip and preparing revetments.

Nearly continuous rains for the first seventeen days slowed up work on the airstrip and made construction of roads almost impossible. The soil was largely clay, exceptionally difficult to work where wet. Coral was scarce and what little there was had a high content of clay, and consequently drained poorly. Work on the airstrip was carried on night and day until July 18, when enemy air raids seriously retarded night work. By that time, however, the field had been completed to a usable width of 150 feet and length of 3300 feet.

***By the end of July, two taxi loops with 28 hardstands were complete. Continuous enemy bombing resulted in one casualty, several cases of war neurosis, and damage to several pieces of equipment.***

http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/Bui ... es-25.html

a photo of october 1943 shows Segi strip having taxi ways as well.
http://www.pacificwrecks.com/airfields/ ... 43-cu.html