![]() Sometimes this required engineers to construct airfields hours after Japanese forces had been driven off so that air operations could begin within days. For example, during World War II, the Allied counteroffensive against Japan required aircraft to operate ever further from established bases in Australia and Hawaii. 2 While the growing interest in creating, maintaining, and operating from such airfields is recent, the US military has an established history of constructing and using such airfields. 1 Expeditionary airfields have also been used in supporting operations against terrorist organizations around the world. In recent years the US military has become increasingly interested in operating aircraft from austere, expeditionary airfields due to concerns about competitor’s abilities to threaten established airfields. ![]()
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