Down under in Oz the Yanks named the airfields after some notable air person eg Mareeba aerodrome hurriedly built at the time of the Battle of the Coral sea, was called Hoevet Field, after Major Dean Hoevet who was killed along with his crew when his B 17 crashed into Trinity Bay near Cairns. Far North Queensland.
Further up the Cape, Bamaga strip was Higgins Field
After the attrition of The RAAF sqdns 75 and 76 in the air battles for Port Moresby, Old John (Jackson) air fighting veteran, when he was killed in combat the strip was named Jackson’s.
Might now be called Port Moresby InternationalAirport, but is still referred to as Jackson’s. How good is that.
In the 70s had the honour of having to land on that original Marsden matting strip as the main runway was blocked. Rather rough and rattlely but it sure gave one a sense of the history of what had occurred here.