Forgotten BSI Airstrip
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As Good As Ever
NEARLY ten years ago, hundreds of US Seabees sweated day and night constructing a crushed coral airstrip along the length of two-miles-long Stirling Island, at the extreme north of the British Solomons —and then only a feiw minutes’ flying from the nearest Japanese airfield on Bougainville.
The airfield then built is as good as ever to-day, in the opinion of the Rev. A. H. Voyce, of the Methodist Mission, who lately visited adjoining Mono Island. Mr. and Mrs. Voyce have served their mission in this area for 20 years.
Mr. Voyce considers that a day’s work would put the strip in service able condition for DC3 aircraft.
While at Mono Mr. Voyce had a congregation of 22 people in the Memorial Church built native fashion by the Bth New Zealand Brigade and dedicated on Anzac Day, 1944. This Brigade landed on Mono, on October 27, 1943, and liquidated several hundred Jap anse. —AJS.