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3 unusual facts about Yokota Air Base


2d Combat Cargo Group

Its last duty station under this designation was at Yokota Air Base, Japan, where it was inactivated on 15 January 1946.

Nakajima Ki-115

An example of the Ki-115 is at the Garber Facility of the National Air and Space Museum, in disassembled condition; another, once displayed as a gate guardian at Yokota Air Base, is reportedly at a Japanese museum.

Ryō Kurusu

In 1944, he was transferred to Tama Airfield (now Yokota Air Base) in Fussa, Tokyo.


1969 EC-121 shootdown incident

The USAF 6918th Security Squadron at Hakata Air Station, Japan, USAF 6988th Security Squadron at Yokota Air Base, Japan,and Detachment 1, 6922nd Security Wing at Osan Air Base monitored the North Korean reaction by intercepting its air defense search radar transmissions.


see also

459th

459th Airlift Squadron (459 AS), part of the 374th Airlift Wing at Yokota Air Base, Japan

Harold Klemp

Afterwards, he completed a two-year tour at Misawa Air Base and later at Yokota Air Base in Japan, where he was first exposed to the teachings of Eckankar.