US Marine Corps KC-130J, 167109 Operated by Marine Aerial Refueling Transport Squadron 152 (VMGR-152) provides aerial refuelling service to support Fleet Marine Force (FMF) air operations. It provides assault air transport of personnel, equipment, and supplies. The squadron, known as the “Sumos...
Resentment over the continuing presence of US bases in Okinawa, a chain of islands at the southern tip of the Japanese archipelago, was evident during the ceremony held to remember more than 200,000 people, many of them civilians, who died in the fighting near the war's end. Japan PM hec...
On the same day a Japanese-American “security treaty” was concluded; it allowed the USA to build bases in Japan and to keep its forces there for an indefinite period. When the Peace Treaty of San Francisco went into force on Apr. 28, 1952, all power in Japan was transferred to the ...
ww2dbaseThese nine submarines prowled the US coast for two weeks. Among them, they made nine more attacks on merchant shipping and destroyed three ships. Realistically, the Japanese goal was not so much to impede American shipping as it was to encourage American panic by bringing the war direc...
And then, on August 6, 1945, the US air force drops an Atomic Bomb onto Hiroshima. Thousands are killed in an instant, and although Gen and his mother survive, they cannot save his father and younger siblings, who are trapped beneath their house and die in the subsequent fire. From ther...
As a result, in June 1944 the Japanese faced highly trained US pilots with new superior planes in their slightly upgraded planes flown by poorly-trained pilots. This resulted in an ineffective air force, which had almost no other option but to resort to Kamikaze attacks due to insufficient tra...
At the same time, the American government initiated a "special procurements" program to meet the needs of its Japan-based Eighth Army and Fifth Air Force. Within one year, special procurements income from the construction of bases and the purchase of war materials had started Japan on the ...
the foundation of Japan is the best in the world. It is said that the US troops are pleased that the Japanese people are obedient to the words of His Majesty the Emperor and peacefully accepted the US military. We must continue to take pride in being a boy of this great nation and str...
205-6) suggests, demilitarisation, in particular, the relocation of US bases in Okinawa to mainland Japan, is a necessary step to end the Japanese colonisation of Okinawa. 6 The rise of historical revisionism has also impacted on another controversy concerning school textbooks, which took place ...
All day long the Japanese Air Force pounded RAF bases whose locations and strength had been provided by Patrick Heenan, the traitor. From his base at Alor Star, Heenan transmitted reports on RAF activity to the Japanese on his radio. When the Japanese had not hit Alor Star by 10 am, an...