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The facility which houses Yokota Air Base was originally constructed by the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) in 1940 as Tama Airfield, and used as a flight test center. During World War II Yokota became the center of Japanese Army Air Forces flight test activities and the base was the site of the first meeting between Japanese and Italian wartime allies.
It is roughly southeast of Yokota Air Base. The alternate center for Japan's national government is located on a portion of what used to be Tachikawa Air Base. The center includes billeting, offices, communications and control centers, hospital and a full cafeteria.
Across the Pacific, the PE program uses Boeing 767 commercial aircraft. These flights arrive and depart from the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in the United States. [4] [5] They serve Yokota Air Base, Misawa Air Base, Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, and Kadena Air Base in Japan as well as Osan Air Base in Korea.
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.
The 6091st was supported administratively and logistically by the host units at Yokota Air Base, but was operationally controlled by Fifth Air Force and HQ PACAF. In 1968 the unit was inactivated, its personnel and assets being absorbed by the 556th Reconnaissance Squadron which operated drones and other reconnaissance aircraft over Southeast ...
The Air Force has officially declared all eight airmen who were aboard the CV-22 Osprey that crashed last week off the coast of Yakushima Island, Japan, deceased, as they transition from search ...
It is stationed at Yokota Air Base, Japan. The unit's World War II predecessor unit, the 374th Troop Carrier Group operated primarily in the Southwest Pacific Theater, being formed in Australia in 1942 using resources from the Air Carrier Service (formerly Air Transport Command).
Pusan West Air Base (K-1), South Korea, 3 December 1950; Misawa Air Base, Japan, 25 May 1951; Johnson Air Base, Japan, 1 July 1951 (detachment at Komaki Air Base, Japan, 13 July 1953 – 17 February 1955) Yokota Air Base, Japan, 13 August 1954 – c. 15 June 1965; Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, 20 June 1965 – 15 October 1970