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 Guinea Airways c1934c |
Location Lat 7° 8' 30S Long 146° 37' E Located near Bulwa, at the junction of the Bulolo River and Watut River. To the southeast of Bulolo and Wau. To the northwest is Sunshine. Also known as Bulowat or Bulwa. Construction Built by Bulolo Gold Dredging Limited during during 1932–1933 to support gold mining operations at Placer Dome. Over the next year, two Junkers G 31 trimotors based at Lae Airfield landed at Bulwa Airfield 468 times to transporting pieces of a disassembled gold dredge. The larger parts were unloaded using a crane at the airfield. In middle 1942 the single runway was 1000 x 100 x 2000 yards surfaced with sod, dry with fair approaches due to nearby hills. The runway could be expanded further. Nearby were thirty houses for employees, Major Edwards, completely equipped hospital, food and water plus a telephone line to Bulolo and Wau. Wartime History On January 30, 1943 at the height of the Battle of Wau, the Australian Army New Guinea Force headquarters requested that Bulwa Airfield and Bulolo Airfield be readied for emergency use if Wau Airfield was made unservicable or captured by the Japanese. Luckily, this never proved necessary. Today References Contribute
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