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The Seabees (Navy construction battalions) came to the base in 1950 and prepared it for re-opening that December as Naval Air Station Atsugi. NAF Atsugi was a major naval air base during both the Korean War and Vietnam War, serving fighters, bombers, and transport aircraft. One of the aircraft based at Atsugi at least since 1957 [4] was the U-2 ...
[3] [4] The incinerator was located near Naval Air Facility Atsugi, a base manned partly by several thousand United States Navy members and their families. Throughout its history, the incinerator complex reportedly blew toxic and cancerous emissions over the neighboring base facilities, [ 1 ] [ 5 ] contaminating the base, especially the housing ...
An EC-121M Warning Star of fleet VQ-1 World Watchers accompanied by a McDonnell F-4B Phantom II. In 1960, not only was VQ-1 moved to Atsugi, Japan, and redesignated Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron ONE, but the last Mercator was retired and replaced by the first of many WV-2Q Super Constellations (also known as "Willie Victor").
Fleet Air Wing 31 (Iwakuni Air Base) Air Rescue Squadron 71 (Atsugi Air Base US-1A, US-2) Air Reconnaissance Squadron 81 (Iwakuni Air Base EP-3, OP-3C) Air Training Support Squadron 91 (Iwakuni Air Base UP-3D, U-36A) Maintenance and Supply Squadron 31; Drone Maintenance Squadron; Air Station Squadron Iwakuni; Air Development Squadron 51 (Atsugi ...
Air Development Squadron 51 (第51航空隊, daigojuuichikoukuutai) (which is also referred to as Fleet Air Squadron 51 or VX-51) [1] is a unit in the Japanese Maritime Self-Defence Force. It is a part of the Fleet Air Force and is based at Naval Air Facility Atsugi in Kanagawa prefecture .
Naval Support Facility Kamiseya (上瀬谷通信施設, Kamiseya Tsūshin Shisetsu) (UIC 0557A) is a detachment of U.S. Naval Air Facility, NAF Atsugi, Japan.The facility is located on the Kantō Plain, approximately three miles (4.8 km) northeast of NAF Atsugi, and 7.55 miles (12.15 km) WNW of Yokohama.
Atsugi is located in the hilly center of Kanagawa Prefecture, approximately 45 kilometres (28 mi) from central Tokyo or 30 kilometres (19 mi) from central Yokohama.It is located at the northern end of the Sagami Plain created by the Sagami River, which originates from Lake Yamanaka, and straddles the Tanzawa Mountains in the west and the plain on the west bank of the Sagami River to the southeast.
The detachment later joined Marine Aircraft Group 11 at Naval Air Station Atsugi in September 1953. MATCU-66 arrived in South Vietnam on 19 May 1962 supporting aviation operations out of Sóc Trăng while simultaneously providing TACAN and GCA services at Udorn Royal Thai Air Force Base, Thailand. The unit ceased operations on 28 July 1962 and ...