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Yokota Air Base (横田飛行場, Yokota Hikōjō), (IATA: OKO, ICAO: RJTY) is a Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) and United States Air Force (USAF) base in the Tama Area, or Western Tokyo. It occupies portions of Akishima, Fussa, Hamura, Mizuho, Musashimurayama, and Tachikawa. [2] The base houses 14,000 personnel.
Tachikawa Air Base, Japan 1963-68 Yokota Air Base, Japan 1968-72: Inactive (C-130, C-141) 57th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron: Clark AB, Philippines 1965-72 Scott Air Force Base, Illinois 1973-94: Inactive - replaced by 375th AES (C-130, C-141, C-9A) 58th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron: Rhein-Main Air Base, Germany 1968-72 McGuire AFB, New ...
The 1951 Sunagawa United Air Force B-29 Superfortress crash occurred on November 18, 1951, when a B-29 bomber from Yokota Air Base crashed during takeoff in Sunagawa, Hokkaido, Tokyo. The aircraft, carrying bombs, exploded upon impact, causing a fire that destroyed over 100 buildings and killed 15 people, including 10 firefighters.
• US Air Force Senior Airman Brian K. Johnson, 32, of Reynoldsburg, Ohio, a flight engineer assigned to the 21st Special Operations Squadron, 353rd Special Operations Wing, Yokota Air Base, Japan.
The 459th Airlift Squadron is an active United States Air Force unit assigned to the 374th Airlift Wing at Yokota Air Base, Japan. It has been stationed at Yokota since 1993. It has been stationed at Yokota since 1993.
Irumagawa Air Base, Japan, 25 Jan 1946; Yokota Air Base, Japan, 25 Mar 1949; Detachment operated from Itazuke Air Base, Japan, from 29 Jun 1950. Itazuke Air Base, Japan, 9 Jul 1950; Taegu Air Base (K-2), South Korea, 2 Oct 1950; Komaki Air Base, Japan; Operated from Taegu Air Base (K-2), South Korea, 26 Jan – 25 Feb 1951. Vance Air Force Base ...
It moved to Japan in March 1949 and when the Korean War broke out in June 1950, was the only air transport group in the Far East. For its work between 27 June and 15 September 1950, transporting vital cargo, personnel and evacuating wounded men, the 374th earned its fourth DUC.
Second Air Force 1949–1975. Eighth Air Force 1975–1992. 4th Air Division 1952–1964. 311th Air Division 1949. 2d Bomb Wing 1963–1991. 2d Wing 1991–1992. 91st Strategic Reconnaissance Wing 1949–1951. 301st Bomb Wing 1949–1958. 311th Reconnaissance Group 1948–1949; 376th Bomb Wing 1951–1957. 4220th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing ...