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Seagrove (aerodrome)
Seagrove was an airport located by Clarks Beach on the south shoreline of Manukau Harbour, New Zealand, near the small Waikato district town of Waiuku.
==World War Two==
Seagrove aerodrome was built, after Japan's entry into World War Two (with the sudden threat of invasion), in secret on commandeered private dairy farming land during World War Two (1942) for the use of RNZAF and United States Navy aircraft. It was used initially for the air defence of Auckland. Originally it was to be named RNZAF Base Karaka, but as a good will gesture to the Clark family that gave up their farmland, retained the Homestead's name "Seagrove".
Very few people knew of the base or its existence during the war, so well-guarded that airmen based at the nearby RNZAF Ardmore aerodrome would wonder why fighter aircraft would suddenly appear out of nowhere and disappear from view.〔RNZAF Museum/Abandoned bases〕
By 1943, the air force base was used as an auxiliary to the much larger bases at Mangere aerodrome (now Auckland International Airport) and Ardmore aerodrome. Curtis P40 Kittyhawk point defence fighters and Douglas SDB3 (and SDB4) Dive Bombers were both assembled and based there. Two paved cinder top runways, each approximately 5000 ft long and 150 ft wide, were built in a 'Boomerang' layout, one running west to east the other running nor'northeast to sou'southwest, central thresholds meeting at the apex of the Seagrove promontory at the mouth of the Waiau Pa inlet. Temporary barracks, dug in revetments and maintenance facilities were built. At the end of the conflict in 1945 the base was 'revealed' and closed but used for a short time as a surplus aircraft dump.〔History of Aviation in New Zealand,1976,〕
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