Enewetak Airfield (Stickell Field)

Built by echelons of the 110th Seabees Battalion in late February 1944, and immediately began building the bomber strip.
Completed on March 11, 1944 the first plane landed and on April 5, 1944.
The completed field, 6,800' long and 400' wide, had two taxiways, facilities for major engine-overhaul, and housing for aviation personnel in quonset huts.

Often used as a ferry strip for B-24 and B-25 on missions to Truk and other targets. On April 18, 1944, B-24s from VD-3 fly a 13 hour flight from Eniwetok for coverage over Saipan.

A tank farm of twelve 1,000-barrel tanks, with piping, a floating pipe-line, 1,200 feet long, and a tanker mooring, was completed for aviation gasoline on Eniwetok Island by May 1944. Completion had been delayed by the explosion of an LCT in March, which reduced the status of completion of the farm from 80 to 30 percent.
Two coral-fill piers, one 80 and the other 150 feet long, were built on Eniwetok Island, and two beaches were developed for LCT's. Small-boat-repair ships were also built, and a floating dock for small ships was assigned to the base.

Named early in 1944 in honor of Lt. John H. Stickell, Naval Aviator and former RAF pilot, who died from wounds received in action during a low-level attack on Jaluit in the Marshalls.

Units Based at Stickell Field
USN VD-4 from Barbers Point May 1944 - October 12, 1944 to Guam

Today the airfield still remains, but is no longer an active.

ICAO-Code: PKMA