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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.
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.
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 ...
Instead, American military forces, particularly the US Air Force, were stationed across Japan to protect American interests and to conduct surveillance and intelligence missions against communist threats in the region. [4] The 91st Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron, part of the USAF's 15th Air Force, was based at Yokota Air Base in Japan. This ...
The Fifth Air Force (5 AF) is a Numbered Air Force of the United States Air Force Pacific Air Forces (PACAF). It is headquartered at Yokota Air Base, Japan. It is the U.S. Air Force's oldest continuously serving Numbered Air Force. The organization has provided 80 years of continuous air power to the Pacific since its establishment in September ...
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).