Peter Davidson operating a Cat D-8 hydraulic bulldozer on the Puerto Princesa airstrip on palawan in February of 1945.
Airstrip at Cape Sansapor built by the 1897th Aviation Engineering Battalion in August of 1944.
Map of New Guinea. The black arrow on the right shows Finschafen where the 1897th initially landed in New Guinea to acclimate, receive its heavy equipment and to stage for the Cape Sansapor landing. Black arrows on the left show intermediate landing points where we changed from Liberty ships to LSTs. On the far left a black arrow points to Cape Sansapor on the Vogelkopf peninsula.
