Investigating WWII History Series (Video)
DAU AIRFIELD: A FORGOTTEN JAPANESE WWII AIR STRIP OF CLARK FIELD
ダウ飛行場: 忘れ去られた日本製のクラーク飛行場
Going back in WWII HISTORY in one of the Clark Air Center’s auxiliaries air strips used by the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy Air Service, the DAU AIRFIELD. The air strip is mostly unknown, that even on Japanese source is not available. Now see what remains of the Dau Airfield and learn a brief forgotten History in WWII.
Dau Airfield was perhaps the smallest from among the satellite air strips of Clark District built and used by the Japanese. There were few written articles about this obscure but operational airfield near Clark. In fact, there were few information that could be gathered about this airfield. It was the Americans, particularly the US Navy that discovered the existence of Dau Airfield during the raids of Fast Carrier Task Force 38 the Air Group 20 from USS Lexington conducted in December 1944.
The Bamban WWII Museum Field Recon Team, which is conducting field survey of former WWII Japanese airfields of Clark region, through research, was able to locate the Dau Airfield.
Watch the drone videos taken on the aerial views of the former WWII airfield long forgotten but now documented to be part of WWII historical place.
Rhonie C. Dela Cruz
