[Aaron0617]

Amazingly by the time they decided to invade they didn't need that airstrip because aircraft had been improved substantially.

from what I understood we were destroying the airfield so Japanese wouldn't use it to attack our forces during the other island attacks.

[muawiyah]

Unless this was a major jet airplane base (for the 12,000 jet planes the Japanese had built and stashed in the home islands) I doubt they were in line to get resupplied with fuel which the Japanese were just then squeezing out of fermented acorns.

Someone simply forgot to update the battle plans for the area