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  2. Camp Hansen - Wikipedia

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    The camp houses approximately 6,000 Marines nowadays, [1] and is part of Marine Corps Base Camp Butler, which itself is not a physical base and comprises all Marine Corps installations on Okinawa. Camp Hansen is named for Medal of Honor recipient Dale M. Hansen , a Marine Corps private who was honored for his heroism in the fight for Hill 60 ...

  3. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma - Wikipedia

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    It is home to approximately 3,000 [3] Marines of the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing and other units, and has been a U.S. military airbase since the defeat of the Japanese Imperial Army in the Battle of Okinawa in 1945. Marine Corps pilots and aircrew are assigned to the base for training and providing air support to other land and sea-based Marines ...

  4. Relocation of Marine Corps Air Station Futenma - Wikipedia

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    Okinawa prefecture constitutes 0.6% of Japan's land surface, [9] yet as of 2006, 75% of all USFJ bases were located on Okinawa, and U.S. military bases occupied 18% of the main island. [ 10 ] There is local opposition in Okinawa to the construction of a new base; more than 76 percent of the population having expressed their opposition to a ...

  5. Marine Corps Base Camp Smedley D. Butler - Wikipedia

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    Camp Smedley D. Butler was formerly called Camp or Fort Buckner, named for Army General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., who commanded ground forces in the invasion of Okinawa and was killed in the last days of the battle. The renaming of Buckner to Butler occurred after most U.S. Army troops left Okinawa, and the base was transferred to the USMC.

  6. Yomitan Auxiliary Airfield - Wikipedia

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    During the Battle of Okinawa on April 1, 1945, United States Marine Corps and United States Army forces seized the airfield on the first day of their landing. It was quickly repaired and became the first airfield on Okinawa to be used by the American forces. Later it was developed into a major American base for Army, Marine, and Navy aircraft.

  7. Camp Courtney - Wikipedia

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    Camp Courtney (Japanese: キャンプ・コートニー, Hepburn: Kyampu Kōtonī) is a U.S. Marine Base located in Uruma City, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. [1] It is part of the larger Marine Corps Base Camp Smedley D. Butler and home to the III Marine Expeditionary Force, 3rd Marine Division, and 3d MEB Headquarters.

  8. Japan's top court orders Okinawa to allow a divisive ... - AOL

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    Japan's central government began the reclamation work at the Henoko area on the eastern coast of Okinawa's main island in 2018 to pave the way for the relocation of the Marine Corps Futenma air ...

  9. Camp Gonsalves - Wikipedia

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    Camp Gonsalves is a U.S. Marine Corps jungle warfare training area located in northern Okinawa, Japan, across the villages of Kunigami and Higashi.Established in 1958, it is the largest U.S. training facility in Okinawa.