Lat
9° 28' 60S Long 147° 10' 60E Flat,
rectangular island, located offshore of Port
Moresby. Also known as 'Fisherman's Island'.
The
island's name is derrived from the names of the island's
two villages - Dag (on the western tip) and Ugo (eastern tip). Also
it was known as FIsherman's Island.
Daugo Airfield (Fishermans Airfield)
Built by the RAAF circa 1944 as an emergency airfield. Disused since the war.
Paul Carpenter (Curtiss-Wright Technical Rep) visited in September 1942:
"Report No. 16, September 23, 1942 page 5: Althou[ght] this trip to the [Fishermans] island turned out uneventful we found out on our return that it might have been exciting. We were about a couple miles off shore on our return when we saw a fast speed boat leave shore and come in our direction. We steered to give it a wide berth but it came directly for us all this time and we could see the occupants waving us back in the direction from which we had just come. We thought perhaps an air raid was on or something, so we followed them and when we reached water calm enough one came alongside and we got the story: It seems that this little island was used as a bombing target which the B-17s etc. used for checking their bomb sights before going on their first mission and that four B-17 had actually warmed up and were ready to take off before the control tower remembered we had gone to this island and stopped them from taking off. They consequently had to wait our return so when they saw us coming they headed us off and changed boats with us as we had the shallow draught boat which was necessary to approach the island on account of the coral reefs which are very near the surface at low tide. This other crowd was going to make sure the target area was clear before dropping anything after our narrow experience and put out appropriate signal."
B-25C Mitchell Serial
Number 41-12486
Crashed on the isalnd prior to the airfield being built
P-39D Airacobra Serial
Number 41-7165
Missing in action, crashed ofshore due to mechanical problems
B-24D Liberator Serial Number 42-41099
Missing on an engineering flight toward Fisherman's island
F-4A Lightning Serial
Number 41-2140
Pilot Morton, crashed March 16, 1943
