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Aitutaki has a hospital and an airstrip that was built during World War II.

With the surge of assistance, the tiny airstrip that serves this ancient backwater on the Silk Road was clogged.

A sprawling base, with a long airstrip that is home to a fleet of American-made Cobra helicopter gunships, dominates the northern part of the town.

The First Marine Division had gone ashore on Aug. 7, 1942, to seize a partly completed airstrip that was later renamed Henderson Field.

To land, pilots have to bank around heavily populated mountain slopes and then dip down onto a 2 mile (3km) airstrip that is boxed inside the city centre.

There are reports that Taiwan is building a $100m port near the airstrip that could accommodate naval frigates and coast guard cutters, the Pentagon said.

The oil companies, he said, had built roads and airstrips that allowed government forces to pursue war against the south.

But the AN-2's ability to operate from the isolated and rugged airstrips that dotted the Soviet Union made it a classic all-purpose airplane.

We used Gum Air (www.gumair.com) for flights to the remote airstrips that were our pickup and drop-off points in the interior.

"These projects provide airstrips that meet minimum safety standards for the citizens of these Alaskan towns," Deputy Transportation Secretary John D. Porcari wrote in a response to the department's inspector general, Calvin L. Scovel III.

Private American relief organizations have joined the United Nations in pressing the administration to pave the way for airlifts by avoiding bombing certain airstrips that could be used for delivering food and medicine.