The airfield was built in April 1945 by the United States Army Corps of Engineers and United States Navy Seabees as a combat airfield to support the Army and Marine Corps ground forces during the Battle of Okinawa.

It had a 7,000' x 100' single runway and was used as the support field for Headquarters, Fifth Air Force and its subordinate commands on Okinawa from August through October 1945 until they moved to Honshu, Japan for postwar occupation duty.

* Assigned to nearby town of Hamasaki and used Motobu Airfield for air operations.

In addition to the Army units, several Navy aviation squadrons used the airfield.

This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency