Kadena Air Base (嘉手納飛行場, Kadena Hikōjō) (IATA: DNA, ICAO: RODN) is a United States Air Force base in the towns of Kadena and Chatan and the city of Okinawa...
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controlled by the US Government including Kadena Air Base, the second-largest base in the United States Air Force. Kadena faces the East China Sea to the west...
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States Air Force B-52 Stratofortress crashed at Kadena Air Base on the island of Okinawa, Japan. The United States Air Force (USAF) Strategic Air Command...
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from Kadena Air Base crashed into an elementary school in Uruma, killing 17 and injuring 210. The residential area surrounding the Kadena Air Base has...
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from Kadena Air Base, Okinawa to Kung Kuan Air Base with North American F-100 Super Sabre. 11 – 24 May 1961, the 39th Air Division based at Misawa Air Base...
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Carolina 353d Special Operations Group, Kadena Air Base, Japan 320th Special Tactics Squadron, Kadena Air Base, Japan 352d Special Operations Wing, RAF...
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Kadena Elementary School, Kadena Air Base, Okinawa Island Kadena High School, Kadena Air Base, Okinawa Island Kadena Middle School, Kadena Air Base,...
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Air Control Squadron (623 ACS) is an operational unit of the United States Air Force assigned to the 18th Wing. The 623d is based out of Kadena Air Base...
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67th Fighter Squadron (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Air Force Historical Research Agency)
is a fighter squadron of the United States Air Force, part of the 18th Operations Group at Kadena Air Base, Japan. The 67th is equipped with the F-15C/D...
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Korean War, B-29 Superfortresses flew bombing missions over Korea from Kadena Air Base on Okinawa. The military buildup on the island during the Cold War...
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B-29s. In May 1949, the headquarters of the Twentieth Air Force moved from Guam to Kadena Air Base, Okinawa. Its former staff was assigned to the 19th BW...
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Theater of Operations. Its last assignment was with Pacific Air Forces at Kadena Air Base, Okinawa. It was inactivated on 1 October 1991. The unit was...
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33rd Rescue Squadron (redirect from 33d Air Rescue Squadron)
The 33rd Rescue Squadron is part of the 18th Wing at Kadena Air Base, Japan. It operates Sikorsky HH-60 Pave Hawk aircraft conducting search and rescue...
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the U.S. Air Force. The runways at Kadena were upgraded for Convair B-36 Peacemaker use. Reconnaissance RB-36s were deployed to Yokota Air Base in late...
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Japan during the 1950s through the 1970s remains a controversy. At Kadena Air Force Base, an Entomology Branch of the U.S. Army Preventive Medicine Activity...
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18th Wing (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Air Force Historical Research Agency)
The United States Air Force's 18th Wing is the host wing for Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, Japan and is the Air Force's largest combat wing. It is the largest...
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Kadena Air Base in December 2018 HMAS Parramatta in late 2019 A RAAF P-8 Poseidon to Kadena Air Base in February 2020 A RAAF P-8 Poseidon to Kadena Air...
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soldier Sergeant Isaac J. Hurt in Kadena, Okinawa on September 4, 1955. Nagayama's body was found near Kadena Air Base during the U.S. occupation of Okinawa...
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the first refugee camp in Okinawa in the area south of present-day Kadena Air Base. The population of the former villages swelled rapidly. An area of...
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320th Special Tactics Squadron (category Special tactics squadrons of the United States Air Force)
a Special Tactics unit of the United States Air Force Special Operations Command, based at Kadena Air Base. The 320th was originally constituted in 1943...
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1st Special Operations Squadron (redirect from 1st Air Commando Squadron)
Special Operations Group at Kadena Air Base, Japan. It operates the MC-130J Commando II, providing special operation capabilities. Air crews are trained in night...
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31st Rescue Squadron (redirect from 31st Air Rescue Squadron)
Kadena Air Base, Japan. It trains, equips and employs combat-ready pararescue specialists. The 31st Rescue Squadron was constituted as the 31st Air Rescue...
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The 733rd Air Mobility Squadron (733 AMS) is an air mobility squadron of the United States Air Force based at Kadena Air Base in Japan. It is part of...
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Kadena High School (カデナ高校, Kadena Kōkō) is an American high school located at Kadena Air Base in Okinawa City, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, administered...
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44th Fighter Squadron (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Air Force Historical Research Agency)
Fighter Squadron is a unit of the United States Air Force, part of the 18th Wing at Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan. The 44th Pursuit Squadron was...
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Aviation accidents in Japan involving U.S. military and government aircraft post-World War II (redirect from 1956 United Air Force North American FJ-2 Fury crash)
in 2018. On November 19, 1968 a United States Air Force B-52D Stratofortress crashed at Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, Japan, during an aborted takeoff for...
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extratropical cyclone while it is 719 km (447 mi) east-northeast of Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan. On June 6, another extratropical cyclone[which?]...
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Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor (redirect from U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor)
deployed overseas in February 2007 with the 27th Fighter Squadron to Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan. This first overseas deployment was initially marred...
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1959 Okinawa F-100 crash (redirect from 1959 Kadena Air Base F-100 crash)
uncontrollable during a training or test flight from Kadena Air Base located in the towns of Kadena and Chatan. Schmitt ejected from the aircraft, landing...
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Carolina 353d Special Operations Wing, Kadena Air Base, Japan 320th Special Tactics Squadron, Kadena Air Base, Japan 352d Special Operations Wing, RAF...
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