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Henderson Airport Memorial Gardens

A small memorial outside the airport entrance honours US forces and their Pacific islander allies. In front is a Japanese anti-aircraft gun. About 100m to the west of the terminal is the scaffold-style US WWII control tower, disused since the early 1950s.

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