The USMC built Bowen Field (also known as Chancerelles Airport), a small civilian and military airport located near Chancerelles area near the Baie de Port-au-Prince. Bowen Field was used by Haiti Air Corps for mail (1943) and passenger (1944) services, then succeeded by the Compagnie haïtienne de transports aériens beginning in 1961. In the 1950s and the 1960s, it served as an airbase for the US military in Haiti.
The US Marine Corps constructed Bowen Field (also known as Chancerelles Airport), a small airport near Chancerelles, Haiti, used by both civilians and the Haitian Air Corps for mail and passenger services from 1943 to 1961. The airfield was later utilized as a military base for the US military in Haiti during the 1950s and 1960s.