Gusap in the beautiful Ramu Valley of Papua New Guinea (PNG) is a service town for the growing and refining of sugar by Ramu Agri Industries (RAI). During World War 2 it was one of a number of airfield bases constructed by American Airborn Engineers in the Markham & Ramu Valley’s as the Allies advanced against the Japanese in PNG. At Gusap amongst the sugar cane fields you can still see evidence of these activities from nearly seventy years ago – aircraft revetments, marsden matting, Caterpillar D4 tractors (disassembled & flown in), fighter plane drop fuel tanks, discarded fuel drums but slowly a lot of this history is being lost. I visit Greg who works for RAI at Gusap every 6 months for business. Greg has been very actively conserving the WW2 history of the area and a few years back I mentioned my metal detecting hobby and we quickly agreed that during my next visit we would spend the weekend seeing what we could find. Greg had some spots he thought would be interesting to explore.