DJARREJ ISLET JAPANESE SEAPLANE BASE

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This stamp depict a Japanese cargo steamship moored on the end of the jetty, have not anything on the ship, she looks like a Japanese seaplane carrier of World War II.

By the stamp is given:
On Djarrej Islet of the Majuro Atoll the Japanese Navy began construction of a major seaplane base, which was unfinished at the time of the American conquest in 1944. So extensive was this base to be that a narrow gauge railway was built from the ship jetty to the warehouses and machine shops.
Most buildings and equipment were destroyed during the American invasion, their remains bull dozed into sea.
Little physical evidence remains, but modern archaeological techniques have pinpointed the pilings which supported most of the buildings, and remains of the rail track cast into the concrete floorings have made possible mapping the installation as it appeared in 1944.
The stamp illustration is based on this research and on the shattered remains of locomotives and cars on Angaur, Paula Island.

Marshall Islands 1989 45c sg?, scott?

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