In April 2010 the Palau Senate passed a resolution asking the President to offer Angaur airstrip as a site for the relocation of Marine Corps Air Station Futenma on Okinawa.
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The 22d Bombardment Group operating B-24s was based at Anagur from November 1944 until January 1945 when it moved to Guiuan Airfield in the Philippines.
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The first elements of the 494th arrived on Angaur on 16 October, being strafed by Japanese forces still on the island as the battle of Bloody-Nose Ridge was still ongoing.