Nadzab Village is in the Markham Valley, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea on the Highlands Highway.

Lane-Poole (1925),[4][5] on surveying the forest of the lower Markham Valley near Yalu, hypothesised that; In about 1910 the Gabmatsung/Gabmazung Lutheran mission station was established at Nadzab.

[6] and established an airfield for use by small planes until the outbreak of the Pacific War when it became overgrown with dense kunai grass.

[7] In the 1919 the Melbourne Argus newspaper ran this classified advertisement; Between April 1943 and July 1943, the Allied Geographical Section of South West Pacific Area (command) conducted reconnaissance after the Japanese invasion.

[13] In 1992 the Veterans' Review Board (Australia)[a] heard evidence that chemical DDT aerial spraying and Pyrethrum bombs may have been used in and around Nadzab in November 1944.