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Lockheed C-130 Hercules at Yokota Friendship Festival 2005. September - Yokota Air Base friendship festival [8] September - Misawa Air Show (also a JASDF base) [2] December - Naha Air Show (also a JASDF base) [6]
Yokota Air Base Japanese-American Friendship Festival: Ushihama Station; Hamura Flower and Water Festival (Tulip Festival): Hamura ... edited on 14 October 2024, ...
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 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.
December 2017 marked the inaugural training event for the new C-130J from Yokota AB as well as the first quad-lateral event with the JASDF, RAAF and Philippine Air Force. [citation needed] In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Micronesian president David Panuelo opted out of the 69th Operation Christmas Drop in 2020. [19]
• 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.
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).
" The date was September 12, 1945. The Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK) building in Tokyo was the home to station JOAK, and shared its facilities with WVTR from 1945 to 1952. With the consolidation of all the AFRS outlets under the newly established Supreme Commander Allied Powers (SCAP), the fledgling Far East Network had eighteen stations in Japan ...