Like most airfields in the Pacific the international airport at Port Vila, Vanuatu was originally a US Army Air Corp airfield.
It is named after LTCOL Harold Bauer, a US Marine fighter pilot who engaged enemy aircraft attacking the USS Mcfarland. He destroyed four before running out of fuel. He was lost in action on the Battle of Guadalcanal a month later.
The airport still has the original control tower.
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