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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 21st Special Operations Squadron is a unit within the 353rd Special Operations Wing, United States Air Force based at Yokota Air Base, Japan.The unit has been activated and inactivated a number of times in its history.
The group was returned to operational status on 15 July 1954, and from 14 August to 30 September 1954 was detached from the wing, moving to Yokota Air Base. All components of the wing were reassembled at Yokota in October 1954 and they served together until the wing was inactivated on 1 October 1957 with its operational squadrons coming under ...
At Yokota, the wing inherited a huge support complex, with some 47 sub-locations in all parts of Japan, including operation of Yokota and Tachikawa Air Bases, Fuchu and Chitose Air Stations, and numerous housing complexes within the Tokyo area. In 1972 the wing's components were as below: HQ 475th Air Base Wing (Yokota AB)
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 ...
Map of Cazaux AIC showing 36th Aero Squadron location The 36th Aero Squadron came into existence at Kelly Field , Texas in June 1917, shortly after the United States entered World War I . Later that year, First Lieutenant Quentin Roosevelt , the son of President Theodore Roosevelt , briefly commanded the squadron.
Lockheed F-16CJ Block 50P Fighting Falcon 92-3895 from the 13th Fighter Squadron Formation of Block 50A F-16CJs, 90-0812 from the 14th Fighter Squadron identifiable.. The 35th Operations Group (35 OG) is the operational flying component of the United States Air Force 35th Fighter Wing.
The 353rd Special Operations Wing is an operational unit of the United States Air Force Special Operations Command, stationed at Kadena Air Base, Japan. [5]The Wing's first predecessor was activated in 1944 as the 3rd Air Commando Group.