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Commander Fleet Activities Chinhae (Korean: 진해 함대지원부대; Hanja: 鎭海艦隊支援部隊 [2]), also known as CFAC, is a United States Navy's unit in the Jinhae district of Changwon, South Korea. It is located near Busan and is the only U.S. Naval Installation on mainland Asia. [3]
During the Korean War the USAF designated the airfield as Chinhae Air Base and K-10 Chinhae. The field was refurbished with a Marsden Matting surface over crushed gravel. 18th Fighter-Bomber Wing F-51s at Chinhae in 1951. USAF units stationed at Chinhae included: 18th Operations Group from 9 December 1950 – 2 June 1952
Jinhae was developed as a naval base (Chinkai Naval Station) of the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Japanese occupation period in the early 20th century.On July 1, 2010, Jinhae and its neighboring cities, Changwon and Masan, merged to form the city of Changwon, currently the seat of the Provincial Council of South Gyeongsang Province.
After the end of the war, the 7th Fleet moved its headquarters to Qingdao, China.As laid out in Operation Plan 13–45 of 26 August 1945, Kinkaid established five major task forces to manage operations in the Western Pacific: Task Force 71, the North China Force with 75 ships; Task Force 72, the Fast Carrier Force, directed to provide air cover to the Marines going ashore and discourage with ...
The port of Chinkai in Korea was an area with long associations with Japan, having been the location of a Japanese trading settlement in the 15th and 16th centuries. More recently, it was the location where Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō assembled his Combined Fleet while waiting for the arrival of the Russian Baltic Fleet prior to the Battle of ...
The U.S. Naval Forces Korea is a major shore command of the United States Navy that serves as the shore support agency for all U.S. naval activity in South Korea.Known by the initials "CNFK", an abbreviation of the address format of the unit ("Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Korea"), its headquarters are at Busan Naval Base, Busan.
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