The fighter strip at Torokina was hacked out of the Bougainville jungle. This December 1943 view shows a lineup of U.S. Marine Corps Vought F4U-1 <i>Corsair</i>s and a Douglas SBD <i>Dauntless</i>, which is completing its landing rollout past a grading machine still working to finish the new landing field.
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Official U.S. Marine Corps photograph 74672 in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.marines.mil/Portals/59/Publications/A%20History%20of%20Marine%20Fighter%20Attack%20Squadron%20312%20PCN%2019000307700.pdf">A History of Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 312 (PCN 19000307700)</a>, p. 6.