Marston airport runway mats.....

[Jacques Reed]

Found this photo in "Battleground South Pacific" by Robert Howlett and photos by Bruce Adams published in 1970.

Caption reads "Marsden Matting designed for muddy airfields planks the footway of a military bridge still in use at Milne Bay".

I imagine many of the relics in the book photographed 55 years ago are now long gone or deteriorated beyond recognition. I bought the book in Rabaul in 1975 when it was a recently published book.

There was a lot of Marsden matting around post war. As a young boy in the fifties in the US I saw it even being used at the Delaware Bay and Cape Hatteras beach areas.

Cheers,