US Naval Advance Bases

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Naval Advance Base Espiritu Santo docks, now part of the City of Luganville

US Naval Advance Bases are a number of United States Navy Naval bases built during World War 2 around the world to support the many naval war ships and boats fighting the global war. A few were built at US Allies ports, but most were built at ports captured from the rival armies of the US. In order to keep ships tactically available there was a great demand for bases that could repair and supply ships in theater, rather than return them to CONUS.[1] Before Japan declared war on the United States the US Navy's only fully equipped advanced base was Naval Station Pearl Harbor in the Territory of Hawaii. During the war the US Navy built over 400 advance bases in the Atlantic Theater of Operations and Pacific Theater of Operations. Advance based were categorized by size. Naval bases were either Lions or Cubs. Airfields were either Oaks or Acorns. Some Advance Bases were small and only supported a few PT Boats, others were very large and could support a fleet of ships. Some of the Advance Bases also had airbases. Most bases could do refueling and overhaul; loading of troopship and cargo ships; and preparing amphibious assault ships. Some of the remote ports also became major repair depots. Advanced auxiliary floating drydocks were able to repair battle damage and do regular maintenance in the field. These ships otherwise would have returned to continental bases or Pearl Harbor. The bases also were a place for the troops to rest and regroup. Most Advance Bases were built by the US Navy's Seabees in Naval Construction Battalions (CBs). At the start of the war some civilian contractor were employed in construction. The Seabees in World War II built most of the airfields used by the United States Army Air Forces and United States Marine Corps, as they had the ships and cranes needed to transport the vast amount of equipment needed at the advance bases. The US Army and United States Coast Guard also operated out of many of these facilities. Seabees could build new or repair damaged runways, and with advancements in heavy bomber technology lengthen runways as needed. A few Naval Advance Bases were built for the Korean War and Vietnam War.[2][3][4]

Advance Bases[]

Built at the bases were personnel housing, piers, roads, shops, power plants, water plants. Large storage depots with fuel, ammunition, food, and other consumable supplies. Fuel for ships, airplanes and vehicles was in much demand, 25,000,000 barrels of fuel was shipped to Pacific bases in just June 1945. During World War 2, in Guam alone one million gallons of aviation gasoline were needed each day. Over 325,000 Seabees troops built bases.[5][6] On the home front many new ships and boats were built the West coast and East coast, Great Lakes and the Gulf of Mexico. Under the Emergency Shipbuilding Program and War Shipping Administration contracts went out to shipyards and Ironwork works companies across the country. Ports were needed for many new cargo ships to dock, like the: 2,710 Liberty ships and 531 Victory ships built, plus the many new tankers and new warships. In the South Pacific, Seabees operated coral pit mines, as crushed coral was used for runways, roads, sidewalks, and more. Many runways were built using steel Marston Mats. At some bases Seabees built sawmills, to produce local timber. Floating pile drivers were used to built piers, docks, and wharves. If pile driving was not suitable, a floating wharf was built. To protect ships and the ports, they needed to built and repaired quickly and runways. Sometimes Seabees set up electric generator lighting and worked around the clock to complete runways. For housing, offices, mess halls, and depots a vast amount of quonset huts of different sizes were built. The Pacific island hopping campaigns, gave new work to be done each day.[7][8][9][10]

At the end of World War 2, almost all of the bases were closed, many were abandoned. A vast amount of vehicles, supplies and equipment at the bases was deemed not needed and too costly to ship to the U.S. Bring the gear home also would have hurt home front industries, as there was already a vast amount of military surplus. Much the equipment was destroyed. Some was given to the local governments has a thank you for the land use. Some of the abandoned bases were used for local military, some turned into towns and ports, like Naval Advance Base Espiritu Santo. Some of the abandoned airfields turned into local and international airports, a post-war Seabees legacy.

  • On the George Washington Memorial Parkway is the Seabees Memorial near the entrance of Arlington National Cemetery.[11][12]

Active Bases[]

  • Naval Base Guam, (Battle of Guam), opened 1944[13]
  • Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Detachment AUTEC, Bahamas, opened 1958
  • Naval Support Activity Bahrain, opened 1941
  • Naval Support Facility Diego Garcia, British Indian Ocean Territory, opened 1971
  • Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba, opened 1898
  • Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, opened 2002
  • Naval Support Activity Souda Bay, Souda Bay, Crete, opened 1951
  • Naval Air Station Sigonella, Italy, 1957
  • Naval Support Activity Naples, Italy, 1951
    • Naval Computer and Telecommunications Station Naples, Italy, Italy, opened 1963
  • Naval Air Facility Atsugi, Japan, opened 1938
  • Naval Forces Japan, Okinawa, Japan, 1945
  • United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Japan, opened 1870
  • United States Fleet Activities Sasebo, Japan, opened 1883
  • Misawa Air Base, Japan, opened 1945
  • Camp Patriot at the Kuwait Naval Base (Gulf War), opened 2003
  • Port of Duqm, Masirah, and Port of Salalah Oman, opened 1980
  • Naval Medical Research Unit Six, Peru, opened 1983
  • Commander Fleet Activities Chinhae, South Korea, opened 1946
  • Naval Station Rota Spain, opened 1953
  • Fujairah Naval Base, Port of Fujairah, Base at Fujairah International Airport, United Arab Emirates (Operation Earnest Will), opened 1987
  • Jebel Ali Port Facility in United Arab Emirates Port, port use, no base, opened 1979.
  • US Navy operates out of Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, opened 1950

Closed bases[]

Major Advance Bases[]

Artisan with and LST-120 in the dock at Espiritu Santo in January 1945

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  • Naval Advance Base Espiritu Santo at Espiritu Santo was the first large advance base built in the Pacific. Closed 1946[15][16]
  • Manus in the Admiralty Islands - Lombrum Naval Base - Seeadler Harbor (1943-1947)
  • Naval Advance Base Saipan, included East Field (Saipan), Aslito Field and Marpi Point Field, seaplane base, hospital, depot (Battle of Saipan)
  • Trinidad, operated off and on shore at what became Carlsen Air Force Base
  • Naval Station Argentia Closed 1994
  • Tinian Naval Base, IN Tinian including North Field, West Field, closed in 1947 (Battle of Tinian)
  • Naval Air Station Bermuda closed 1995
  • U.S. Naval Base Subic Bay closed 1992, now Subic Special Economic and Freeport Zone
      • Leyte-Samar Naval Base (1945-1947)
  • Nouméa, New Caledonia including Nouméa Magenta airfield, Staging base (1942-1956)
  • Enewetak Atoll base, including Eniwetok Airfield, seaplane base Parry Island, Wrigley Airfield Engebi Island, recreational center
  • Naval Base Ulithi closed in 1945
  • Naval Base Peleliu, at Peleliu
  • Naval base Iwo Jima at Iwo Jima
  • Naval Station Sangley Point in the Philippine closed 1971
  • Naval bases Milne Bay at Milne Bay - seaplane base, PT Boats, Depot - Ship repair - hospital - amphibious training center (Sab base Gohora Bay)
  • Naval Air Facility Midway Island (Battle of Midway)
  • Wake Island Airfield (Battle of Wake Island)
  • Naval Air Station Keflavik, Iceland
  • Naval Station Argentia in Newfoundland
  • Naval Air Station Bermuda Annex
  • Ulithi, Western Carolines, Major anchoring, 3,500-foot runway, seaplane base, chapel, recreational center, Hospital on Sorlen Island.
  • Mulberry harbour, Normandy Operation Overlord, Naval built harbour

Rear Pacific Area[]

  • United States Naval Station Tutuila, Samoa, depot, repair (1921-1951)
  • Upolu Island - Advanced Base (1942-1944)
  • Palmyra Island Palmyra Island Naval Air Station - Advanced Base (1939-1947)
  • Funafuti, Ellice Islands - Advanced base - Air Base, anchorage and small hospital
  • Nanumea - Nanumea Airfield closed 1945
  • Nukufetau - Nukufetau Airfield closed 1945

Philippines[]

See also: Philippines campaign (1941–42), Philippines campaign (1944–45), and Battle of the Philippine Sea

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  • Naval Base Cavite, Luzon - Main Base, hospital, submarine base, Closed 1971
  • Liloan, Panaon Island - Advanced Base
  • Ormoc, Leyte - Advanced Base
  • Lingayen Gulf - Advanced Base 6
  • Bobon Point, Samar - 5,000-foot runaway, 7,000-foot runway, Port HQ, repair base at Samar
  • Guiuan, Samar, 7,000-foot runway, bombers,
  • Calicoan, Samar, depot, motor pool, recreational center
  • Manicani Island, Samar, - Large Advanced Base, PT boats, depot, sawmill, ship repair, large floating docks ABSD, hospital.
  • Puerto Princesa, Palawan - Advanced Base - fleet air wing, carrier aircraft service units, bomber squadrons, seaplane base
  • Zamboanga City, Basilan Island, Mindanao - Advanced Base, Airfield, PT Boats, repair Zamboanga Peninsula
  • Mangarin Bay, Mindoro - Advance Base, Airfield, PT Boats
  • Basilan Island, Mindanao, PT Boats
  • Iloilo City, Panay - Advanced Base, PT Boat, depot, repair
  • Malamaui Island - Advanced Base
  • Polloc Harbor - Advanced Base
  • Sarangani Bay - Advanced Base
  • Malalag Bay - Advanced Base
  • Santiago Cove - Fueling Stop
  • Cebu, PT Boat base
  • Mactan, depot, repair, seaplane base, airfield
  • San Fernando, Pampanga, PT Boat, anchorage
  • Manila, hospital, seaplane base, Depot, HQ 7th Fleet, sub base
  • Naval Station Sangley Point, Sangley Point, seaplane base, 5,000-foot runway.
  • Leyte Island
    • Tacloban, Naval Base, recreational center, HQ (1945)
    • Tolosa, HQ 7th Fleet, port
    • Jinamoc Seaplane Base, San Pedro Bay, - Advanced Base, seaplane base, PT Boats
    • Dulag Airfield, in Dulag, Leyte
  • Borneo, PT Boat base

Solomon Islands[]

See also: Solomon Islands campaign, Battle of the Eastern Solomons, and Battle of the Coral Sea

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  • Tulagi - Bases, PT boat (Battle of Tulagi and Gavutu–Tanambogo) (1943-1946)
  • Rendova Island- Base, PT boat
  • Lever Harbor, New Georgia - Advanced Base, PT boat (1935-1944)
  • Vella Lavella - Advanced Base, PT boat (Battle of Vella Lavella (naval))
  • Treasury Island, Treasury Islands - Base, PT boat
  • Cape Torokina, Bougainville Island - Base, runway built, PT boat (1943-1945)
  • Green Island - Base, PT boat
  • Homestead Lagoon, Emirau Island, Hamburg Bay - Base - PT Boats, minor repair base, depots, 3 hospitals, sawmill, two 7,000 feet runways: Inshore and North Cape(1944-1945 )
  • Henderson Field (Guadalcanal), - Base (Guadalcanal campaign)
  • Savo Island - Base (Battle of Savo Island)
  • Munda Point Airfield, Naval Airbase
  • Segi Point Airfield, Naval Airbase
  • Munda Point Airfield, Naval Airbase
  • Ondonga Airfield Seaplane base, Naval Airbase
  • Russell Islands, Advance Base (1943-1945)
  • Guadalcanal Advance Base (1943-1946)
  • Roi Island Advance Base (1946)
  • Kukum Field, for USAAF and RNZA

Central Pacific[]

See also: Battle of Saipan, Mariana and Palau Islands campaign, Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign, and Pacific Islands home front during World War II

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  • Tarawa, in the Gilbert Islands, 4,000-foot fighter runway, 7,050 bomber runway, depot, Marine camp, hospital
  • Apamama Gilberts, airbase, 6,000-foot runway, naval harbor. closed 1944 (Battle of Abemama)
  • Palau Islands, Caroline Islands, Captured Japanese base, three runways, depot, Peleliu Airfield, Airai Field, Hospitals, Angaur Airstrip (Battle of Peleliu)
  • Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands, 5,000-foot runway, hospital, 4,300-foot runway, 100-ton dry dock, Roi Islands, Ebadon Island, Namur Island, Ebeye Island (1943-1952) (Battle of Kwajalein)
  • Mille toll, Marshall Island, Surrender base
  • Minami-Tori-shima, Surrendered base
  • Chuuk Lagoon (Truk Atoll), Naval port (1945-1947) (Operation Hailstone)
  • Weno (Moen) Airfield, port, Naval Air Facilities (1943-1947)
  • Orote, Guam, Mariana Islands, Naval Air Station, (1945-1949)
  • Naval Air Station Agana, Agana Guam, Naval Air Station, (1944-1995)
  • Kagman Point, Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands, Naval Air Station (1944-1947)
  • Canton Island, Phoenix Islands, Naval Air Station (1943-1946)
  • Tanapag, Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands, Naval Air Station (1946-1950)
  • Suva Island, Fiji Islands, Advance Base (1942-1944)
  • Bikini Atoll, Seaport (Battle of Kwajalein), then Operation Crossroads test

Australia, Papua New Guinea & Dutch New Guinea[]

See also: New Guinea campaign and Operation Cartwheel

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  • Cairns, Australia - Base - Hospital, PT Boats, Depot, 40-ton floating drydock
  • Kana Kopa, Milne Bay - Base (Huon Peninsula campaign)
  • Ladava, Milne Bay - Base, PT boat base (Battle of Milne Bay)
  • Tufi - Advanced Base, PT boat base
  • Morobe River, Morobe Province - Advanced Base, airfields, PT boat base (Salamaua–Lae campaign-Landing at Nadzab)
  • Thursday Island - Base, PT boat base
  • Darwin, Australia - Base -mine depot and PT Boats
  • Brisbane Australia, Sub Base[24]
  • Woodlark Island, New Guinea - Advanced Base - 6,500 feet runway - sawmill
  • Fergusson Island - Advanced Base, PT boat base
  • Buna, Papua New Guinea - Advanced Base, airfield, PT boat base (Battle of Buna–Gona)
  • Rabaul, New Guinea - Bases around city, not in the town
  • Kiriwina Island - Advanced Base - 6,000 runway - 25 fighter hardstands and 16 bomber hardstands
  • Dreger Harbor - Advanced Base, PT boat base
  • Saidor- Advanced Base, PT boat base, Airfiled Saidor Airport
  • Rein Bay, New Britain - Advanced Base, PT boat base
  • Talasea, New Britain - Advanced Base (Battle of Talasea)
  • Aitape - Advanced base, PT boat base
  • Hollandia - Advanced Base, depot, repair base, depot, hospital and HQ Seventh Fleet, In Humboldt Bay and Tanahmerah Bay, Closed 1946.
  • Mios Woendi - Base, PT boat base
  • Wakde - Advanced Base, PT boat base
  • Amsterdam Island - Advanced base - PT boat base
  • Morotai- Advanced Base - PT Boats, seaplane base, depot, repair, sawmill, (Army airstrips), (1944-1946)
  • Soemsoem Island, PT-boat base, closed 1946
  • Majuro Atoll - Advanced Base, natural Harbor, Sub base, Fleet recreational center, (Army, Marine runway) Dalop Island, Uliga Island and Darrit Island (1940-1945)
  • Sydney, Australia repair and depot
  • Palm Island, Queensland, Australia, Naval Air Station
  • Merauke, Dutch New Guinea PT Boats and 6,000 feet runway
  • Port Moresby, New Guinea, HQ Seventh Fleet
  • Finschhafen, New Guinea - PT boats and amphibious craft base, Dreger Airfield - hospital (1944-1945)
  • Cape Gloucester, New Guinea, two runways
  • Los Negros Island - Advanced Base, depot, seaplane base
  • Biak, Mios Woendi and Padaido Lagoon, New Guinea, including Owi Airfield and 2nd runway, during over to Dutch Navy. Seaplane and PT boat base, ship repair and hospital. (1944-1946)
  • Alexishafen-Madang, British New Guinea, Advance Base, PT Boat, repair, closed 1945
  • Auckland, New Zealand, Naval Base (1944-1945)
  • Exmouth, Australia called Potshot, submarine advance base

Borneo[]

See also: Battle of Borneo (1941-42) and Borneo campaign (1945)
  • Tarakan - Advanced Base, PT boat base
  • Tawi-Tawi - Advanced Base, PT boat base
  • Brunel Bay - Advanced Base, PT boat base
  • Balikpapan - Advanced Base, PT boat base

Japan and Marianas[]

See also: Battle of Okinawa, Battle of Iwo Jima, and Occupation of Japan

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  • Okinawa Battle of Okinawa[29]
    • Teguchi Harbor, PT Boat base
    • Yomitan Auxiliary Airfield, hospital, three runways
    • Kadena airfield
    • Machinato Airfield
    • Yonabaru Airfield
    • Motobu Airfield (with Army)
    • Chimu Airfield and Naval Base, repair (1945-1946)
    • Awase Airfield
    • Naha Naval Air Base (1945-1952)
    • Ie Shima Airfield and US Fleet port (1944-1946)
    • Iejima Airport
    • Ryukyu Islands, small bases on Islands, (1945-1946)
    • Futema airfield
    • Katchin Hanto, pier, seaplane base, hospital
    • Kuba Saki, pier, depot
    • Chimu Wan, section base, depot
    • Unten Ko, Motobu Peninsula, port
    • Bisha Gawa, pier, depot
    • Tsuken Shima, airfield, Tsuken Island, degaussing station
    • Nakagusuku Bay - Buckner Bay, naval base, depot
  • Chichijima Airfield
  • Ōmura, Nagasaki, Depot, Port HQ, airfield
  • Kure, Hiroshima, Naval Base
  • Nagasaki, port for inspection
  • Hiroshima, port for inspection
  • Kabayana, Naval Base
  • Iwo Jima, 3 captured runways (Naval improved them), hospital Central Field, South Field (Battle of Iwo Jima)

China[]

  • Tientsin Operation Beleaguer, airfield
  • Shanghai Naval Advance Base (1946-1947)
  • Peiping Port
  • Tsingtao port (1946-1949)

Mediterranean[]

See also: North African campaign, Italian campaign (World War II), Allied invasion of Sicily, and Southern France Campaign (1944)

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  • Bone, Algeria - Advanced Base, PT Boat base (Battle of Algiers)
  • Bizerte, Tunisia - Base, PT Boat base
  • Palermo, Sicily - Advanced Base, PT Boat base
  • Capri, Italy - Advanced Base, PT Boat base
  • Salerno, Italy, port
  • Anzio, Italy, port
  • Nettuno, port
  • Côte d'Azur, port
  • La Maddalena, Sardinia - Advanced Base, PT Boat base
  • Bastia, Corsica, - Advanced Base, PT Boat base
  • Calvi, Corsica - Advanced Base, PT Boat base
  • Sainte-Maxime, France - Advanced Base, PT Boat base
  • Golfe-Juan, France - Advanced Base, PT Boat base
  • Leghorn, Italy - Advanced Base, PT Boat base
  • Naval Air Station Port Lyautey, Morocco Operation Torch, port
  • Safi, Morocco (Operation Blackstone), port
  • Fedala, Morocco (Operation Brushwood, port
  • Port Lyautey, Morocco Operation Goalpost, port
  • Oran, Algeria, port
  • Bizerte, Tunis, Tunisia Campaign, port, deot
  • Casablanca, port, depot
  • Marathon, Greece base, (1962-?)
  • Cephalonia, Greece earthquake relief base (1953)

Atlantic[]

See also: Normandy landings, Operation Overlord, and Battle of the Scheldt

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  • Port of Antwerp, Belgium, Port shared with Britain, 1944-1946
  • Cherbourg, France - Advanced Base, PT Boat base
  • Port of Le Havre, France - Advanced Base
  • Ostend, Belgium, port
  • Hengelo, Holland port
  • Vreden, Germany, port
  • Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, port
  • Bremerhaven, Germany, port
  • Rosneath naval base, Scotland
  • Londonderry Port, Northern Ireland, Naval Base, hospital[32]
  • Milford Haven and other ports, Wales, Normandy staging ports, hospital
  • Penarth, Wales, amphibious port
  • Bluie West One, Greenland, seaplane base.
  • Naval Air Station Keflavik, Iceland
  • Holy Loch Missile base, (1961-?)
  • England[33]
  • East Anglia Normandy staging ports
  • Exeter, Devon, Naval Base, HQ, large depot, closed 1944
  • Cornwall, Naval Base
  • Dartmouth, England - Advanced Base, PT Boat base
  • Isle of Portland - Main Base, PT Boat base
  • Heathfield, Devon, large depot
  • Netley Large hospital
  • Lough Erne, port
  • Loch Ryan, port
  • Falmouth, Cornwall, amphibious port, hospital
  • Fowey, England amphibious port
  • Plymouth, amphibious port, housing camps
  • Salcombe, amphibious port
  • Dartmouth, Devon, amphibious port
  • Teignmouth, amphibious port
  • St. Mawes, small amphibious port
  • Saltash, small amphibious port
  • Calstock, small amphibious port
  • Weymouth, Dorset, small amphibious port
  • Poole, small amphibious port
  • Southampton, small amphibious port
  • Instow, small amphibious port

Caribbean and South America[]

See also: Panama during World War II, Latin America during World War II, and Battle of the Caribbean
  • Panama Canal[34]
    • Coco Solo, Naval air station for patrol planes and a submarine base
    • Balboa, Panama, Balboa Naval station, depot, submarines, destroyers and patrol boats
  • Taboga Island, Panama Canal - Advance base, PT Boats, Training Base, closed in 1946
    • Almirante, Bocas del Toro, Panama, PT-boat
  • Mandinga, Panama, lighter-than-air base, three 3,000-foot runways
    • La Chorrera, Panama, Panama, emergency fighter-plane base, lighter-than-air pad
    • Mandiga, Panama, base
    • Gatún, Panama, radio station
    • Arraijan, Panama, tank farm
    • Cristóbal, Colón, Panama, dry dock, repair depot
  • Isla Grande in Port of San Juan, Puerto Rico, Naval air station, repair depot, 5400-foot runway and 2300-foot runway
  • San Juan, Puerto Rico, Air Station on Isla Grande, hospital, seaplane base, depot, San Patricio, Catano.
  • Roosevelt Roads Naval Station, at Ensenada Honda, Vieques Island, Puerto Rico, drydock, 3 6,000-foot runways, depot, a major port.
  • Culebra Island, Puerto Rico, one 2,400-foot runway
  • St. Lucia, Gros Islet Bay, Puerto Rico, Advance base, airbase, seaplane base
  • Antigua, Puerto Rico, base
  • Great Exuma, naval air station, seaplane base
  • Antilles, base
  • Corinto, Nicaragua, base
  • Salinas, Ecuador, base
  • St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, Bourne Field, Lindbergh Bay for seaplanes and submarine base Gregerie Channel, seaplane base
  • Naval Station Argentia
  • Morgan and Tucker Islands, in Great Sound, Bermuda, support carrier and patrol aircraft, seaplanes, cruiser, destroyer, and submarine base, depot, anti-aircraft training school (Plus Hamilton Island at Kings Point,) Naval Air Station Bermuda Annex
    • Darrell's Island, Bermuda, Bermuda, seaplane base
    • Ordnance Island, Bermuda, submarine base
    • Riddle's Bay, Bermuda, recreational center
  • Great Exuma, Little Goat Island, seaplane base
  • Antigua, Jamaica, airbase, seaplane base
  • Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, Seaplane Base at Aeolian Cove, Airfield, hospital.
  • Salinas, Ecuador, patrol plane, seaplane and patrol boat base, closed 1946
  • Puerto Castillo, Honduras
  • Barranquilla, Colombia, naval air base, and lighter-than-air base, repair shop, also used Soledad International Airport, closed 1945.
  • Gulf of Paria, Trinidad, (Carenage Bay, Chaguaramus Bay, Teteron Bay, and Scotland Bay. Chaguaramus Valley and Tucker Valley) Air Station, training and Advance base, fleet base, hospital, depot, ship repair
  • British Guiana, Advance base, seaplane base, Lighter-than-air base, (Atkinson Field)
  • Amapá, Brazil, naval air base, lighter-than-air base, closed 1945
  • Maceió, Brazil, lighter-than-air base, closed 1945
  • Belem, Brazil, seaplane base, naval air base, closed 1945
  • Igarape Assu, Brazil, lighter-than-air base, naval air base, closed 1945
  • São Luís, Maranhão, Brazil, lighter-than-air base, naval air base, closed 1945
  • Camocim, Brazil, seaplane base, closed 1945
  • Santo Amaro do Ipitanga Airport Brazil, lighter-than-air base, naval air base, closed 1945
  • Fortaleza, Brazil, lighter-than-air base, naval air base, closed 1945
  • Fernando de Noronha, Brazil, naval air base, closed 1945
  • Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, Parnamirim Field, naval air base, closed 1945
  • Recife, Brazil, Ibura Field, Knox Hospital, depot
  • Maceio, Brazil, lighter-than-air base, naval air base, closed 1945
  • Santo Amaro do Ipitanga Airport, Brazil, lighter-than-air base, naval air base, closed 1945
  • Bahia, Brazil, Aratu seaplane base, ship-repair base, closed 1945
  • Caravellas, Brazil, lighter-than-air base, naval air base, closed 1945
  • Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brazil, Victoria Airport, closed 1945
  • Santa Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, naval air base, closed 1945
  • Laguna del Sauce, Uruguay, seaplane base, closed 1945
  • Salinas, Ecuador, naval air base, hospital.
  • Barranquilla, Colombia, lighter-than-air base, naval air base, closed 1945
  • Curaçao, Netherlands West Indies, Camp Parera, Hato Field closed 1945
  • Puerto Castilla, Honduras, seaplane base, depot
  • Gulf of Fonseca, Nicaragua, Advance base moved to Corinto 1943
  • Corinto, Nicaragua, Advance base, Seaplanes and PT boat base, naval auxiliary air patrol bombers, fleet depot. Closed in 1946
  • Aruba Small naval force to defnened oil field, closed in 1945
  • Paramaribo, Surinam, lighter-than-air station (Also Zandry Field)
  • Suriname, lighter-than-air base, naval air base, closed 1945

Aleutian Islands[]

See also: Aleutian Islands campaign; Dutch Harbor Naval Operating Base and Fort Mears, U.S. Army; and Aleutian World War II National Historic Area

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  • Naval Air Facility Adak
  • Dutch Harbor and Pacific Hut, Fort Mears- Base, submarine base, PT boat base (Battle of Dutch Harbor)
  • Finger Bay, Adak Island - Base, airfield, PT boat base, hospital, seaplane base Andrew Lagoon, port at Sweeper Cove, recreational center
  • Amchitka - Advanced Base, Three airstrips, PT boat base
  • Naval Air Station Attu Casco Cove, Attu - Base, airfield, PT boat base
  • Kiska, Recreational facilities, seaplanes base, depot
  • Massacre Bay, airfield, Seaplane base, depot
  • Unalaska
  • Sitka Naval Operating Base and U.S. Army Coastal Defenses, Sitka, seaplane base, hospital
  • Annette Island
  • Chichagof Island Port Althorp
  • Shemya, auxiliary air facility
  • Port Armstrong Closed 1943
  • Yakutat Bay airfield, Seaplane base
  • Cordova, Alaska Cordova Bay, naval section base, Naval gun emplacement
  • Kodiak Island, Kodiak Naval Reservation, air station, 6000, 5400, and 5000 feet long runway, Naval Operating Base.
  • Tongass Narrows, naval section base
  • Tongatapu Advanced Base, (1942-1945)
  • Womens Bay, seaplane base, depot, repair, Submarine services, hospital
  • Woody Island, Submarine base
  • Chernabura, Naval outlying station
  • Sand Point, Naval outlying station, auxiliary air facility, depot
  • Cold Bay, Naval outlying station, naval auxiliary air facility
  • King Cove, Naval outlying station, dry dock, depot
  • Chirikof Island, Naval outlying station
  • Chiniak, Naval outlying station
  • Entrance Point, Naval outlying station
  • Cape Greville, Naval outlying station
  • Sanak Island, Naval outlying station
  • Afognak, Naval outlying station
  • Atka Island, airfield
  • Tanaga Island, airfield
  • Point Barrow, airfield, depot, dog sleds
  • (Ogliuga Island Ogliuga Island Army Airfield built by Navy)
  • (Fort Greeley and Fort Randall Army bases, built by Navy)
  • Borabora Island, Society Islands, French Polynesia, - Advanced Base (1942-1946)
  • Wallis Island, - Advanced Base (1944-1945)
  • Alaska earthquake relief base (1964)

Korea[]

For Korean War built:

  • Inchon, South Korea, Advance Base (1951-1954) Battle of Inchon[36][37]
  • Pusan, South Korea, landing, (1950-1954) (Battle of Pusan Perimeter)
  • Wonsan, landing (1950), Yo-Do airfield (Blockade of Wonsan)[38][39]
  • Kimbo (1950)
  • Taegu, Battle of Taegu (1950)
  • Seabees built the airfields used by Marine and Airforce.[40]
  • Naval Air Station Cubi Point in the Philippines, used to support the Korean War, (1951-1992)

Antarctica[]

  • McMurdo Sound, Operation Deep Freeze, research base (1955–1956)[41][42]

Vietnam[]

For Vietnam War:

  • Naval Support Activity Danang, Da Nang Air Base
  • Chu Lai Base Area, Chu Lai Advance Base[43][44]
  • Đông Hà airfield[45]

World War I[]

During World War I the Navy had overseas bases, they were not called Advance Bases.

  • U.S. Naval Air Station Wexford Ireland
  • U.S. Naval Air Station Queenstown Ireland
  • Bordeaux, France Seabase[46]
  • Brest, France, Seabase
  • Berehaven, Ireland, Seabase
  • Bantry Bay, Ireland, Seabase
  • Azores, Portugal, sub base[47]
  • Leith, Scotland, Hospital[48]

Gallery[]

  • Aerial view of Seeadler Harbor in 1945

  • Aviation Supply Annex under construction

  • Pallikulo Bay Pontoon Wharf with USS Tangier unloading supplies

  • Naval Air Transport Service Facilities

  • Aviation Overhaul Area

  • F6F-3 Hellcats of VF-40 in 1944

  • base boat repair dock

  • AFDB-1 with USS West Virginia in for repairs off Aessi Island on 13 November 1944

  • Sea bees depot with earthmovers, used to built runways, ramps, roads and foundations.

  • SBD Dauntless being moved small bulldozer and two plywood Landing Craft (LCVPs)

  • PBY Catalinas at the Luganville Seaplane Base February 1942

  • U.S. ships and aircraft in Little Placentia Sound, Argentia in 1942

  • Naval Operating Base Dutch Harbor hut design

  • Seabee Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery

See also[]

External links[]

References[]

  1. ^ Instances of Use of United States Armed Forces Abroad, 1798-2020
  2. ^ "HyperWar: Building the Navy's Bases in World War II [Chapter 5]". www.ibiblio.org.
  3. ^ US Navy Logistics of Advance Bases
  4. ^ US Navy, Building the Navy's Bases in World War II, Volume I (Part I)
  5. ^ seabeesmuseum.com, History
  6. ^ US Navy Building the Infrastructure for War, Establishment of Navy Construction Battalions
  7. ^ US Navy, Building the Navy's Bases in World War II, Volume II (Part III, Chapter 26), Chapter XXVI, Bases in the Southwest Pacific
  8. ^ "HyperWar: Building the Navy's Bases in World War II [Chapter 6]". www.ibiblio.org.
  9. ^ "HyperWar: Building the Navy's Bases in World War II [Chapter 7]". www.ibiblio.org.
  10. ^ "HyperWar: Building the Navy's Bases in World War II [Chapter 10]". www.ibiblio.org.
  11. ^ Seabees Memorial George Washington Memorial Parkway
  12. ^ "Seabees Memorial, (sculpture) | Collections Search Center, Smithsonian Institution". collections.si.edu. Retrieved 2019-04-09.
  13. ^ defense.gov, US Post War Naval Advance Base
  14. ^ "Guide to Archival Holdings (RG 310-Donated Materials)". National Archives. August 15, 2016.
  15. ^ Seabees report on Naval Advance Base Espiritu Santo
  16. ^ US Navy, Naval Construction Battalion Detachment 1007 - Naval History
  17. ^ "HyperWar: Building the Navy's Bases in World War II [Chapter 29]". www.ibiblio.org.
  18. ^ "HyperWar: Building the Navy's Bases in World War II [Chapter 25]". www.ibiblio.org.
  19. ^ "Solomon Islands Airfields".
  20. ^ "HyperWar: Building the Navy's Bases in World War II [Chapter 27]". www.ibiblio.org.
  21. ^ US Navy Securing New Guinea
  22. ^ "HyperWar: Building the Navy's Bases in World War II [Chapter 24]". www.ibiblio.org.
  23. ^ "HyperWar: Building the Navy's Bases in World War II [Chapter 26]". www.ibiblio.org.
  24. ^ Navy, corporateName=Royal Australian. "USN Submarines Based in Brisbane during World War II". www.navy.gov.au.
  25. ^ "HyperWar: Building the Navy's Bases in World War II [Chapter 28]". www.ibiblio.org.
  26. ^ "HyperWar: Building the Navy's Bases in World War II [Chapter 30]". www.ibiblio.org.
  27. ^ "HyperWar: Building the Navy's Bases in World War II [Chapter 31]". www.ibiblio.org.
  28. ^ seabeemagazine United States naval forces at Hiroshima, Kabayana, Yokosuka, Omura
  29. ^ US Navy, Seabees repot, 125th
  30. ^ "HyperWar: Building the Navy's Bases in World War II [Chapter 20]". www.ibiblio.org.
  31. ^ "HyperWar: Building the Navy's Bases in World War II [Chapter 21]". www.ibiblio.org.
  32. ^ "Big U.S. naval base in Ulster built by American and British workers. Londonderry is now America's premier naval base in Europe".
  33. ^ US Navy Seabees report 81th
  34. ^ "HyperWar: Building the Navy's Bases in World War II [Chapter 18]". www.ibiblio.org.
  35. ^ "HyperWar: Building the Navy's Bases in World War II [Chapter 23]". www.ibiblio.org.
  36. ^ US Navy Korean War
  37. ^ Seabees report Inchon
  38. ^ "Wonsan Key Seaport Before War Started; Badly Crippled by U.N. Air and Sea Attacks". The New York Times. June 30, 1951. Retrieved 2009-02-17.
  39. ^ Halliday, Jon; Cumings, Bruce (1988). Korea, the Unknown War. New York: Pantheon Books. p. 157.
  40. ^ US Navy Korean War
  41. ^ Christine Elliott (May 2005). "Antarctica, Scott Base and its environs". New Zealand Geographer. 61 (1): 68–76. doi:10.1111/j.1745-7939.2005.00005.x.
  42. ^ "Maritime Professional - McMurdo Sound". March 14, 2014. Retrieved November 1, 2014.
  43. ^ Coram, Robert (November 2010). Brute: The Life of Victor Krulak, U.S. Marine (1st ed.). Little, Brown & Co, Hachette Book Group. p. 295. ISBN 978-0-316-75846-8.
  44. ^ Shulimson, Jack (1978). U.S. Marines in Vietnam: The Landing and the Buildup. History and Museums Division, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps. pp. 29–35. ISBN 978-1494287559.
  45. ^ Navy-seabees, 6
  46. ^ US Navy WW1
  47. ^ Navt History WW1
  48. ^ Leith, Scotland, Hospital
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