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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.
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.
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).
CV-22B Ospreys assigned to the 353rd Special Operations Wing out of Yokota Air Base are now “not conducting flight operations,” following Wednesday’s fatal crash, according to a statement by ...
The 36th Airlift Squadron is an airlift squadron of the United States Air Force.It is part of the 374th Operations Group (374th Airlift Wing) at Yokota Air Base, Japan.. It is the only forward-based tactical airlift squadron in the United States Indo-Pacific Command Area of Responsibility.
The 475th Air Base Wing is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last duty station was at Yokota Air Base , Japan, where it was inactivated on 1 April 1992. A non-flying wing, the wing 's mission at Yokota was to perform host unit missions.
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 ...
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 ...