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===Japanese occupation=== [[File:Hideki Tojo lands in Manila.jpg|thumb|Japanese Prime Minister [[Hideki Tojo]] arrives at Nichols Field in 1943.]] After its occupation, Nichols Field became a fighter base for the [[Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service]]. It was attacked on several occasions by FEAF fighters. On the night of 26/27 January 1942 Fighters from [[Bataan Airfield]], bombed and strafed Nichols during the night inflicting considerable damage on Japanese aircraft and fuel storage. It was also attacked by [[B-17 Flying Fortress]]es from Australia, on 12 April 1942 staging though [[Del Monte Field]] on Mindanao.<ref name="PW">[http://pacificwrecks.com/airfields/philippines/nichols/missions-nielson.html American Missions Against Nichols Field]</ref> After the capitulation of American forces in the Philippines, on 19 May 1942 the Japanese had American prisoner of war (POW) pilots fly two P-40 Warhawks and a PT-17 Stearman biplane from Davao Airfield to Nichols. One of the P-40s was delayed due to bad weather and landed at a small airstrip en route.<ref name="PW2">[http://pacificwrecks.com/airfields/philippines/nichols/ Pacific Wrecks Nichols Field]</ref> It was used as a Prisoner of War Camp ("Philippine Military Prison Camp 306")<ref>[http://www.west-point.org/family/japanese-pow/Camps-Philippines.htm LIST of POW CAMPS in the Philippine Islands]</ref> and also used as a combat airfield by the IJNAS 1021st [[Kōkūtai]] flying [[Mitsubishi G4M]] medium bombers.<ref name="PW2"/>
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