Iwo Jima Airbase

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A navigation and weather station of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (Nihon Kaijo Jieitai) since 1968, and still used by the U.S. military as an aircraft refueling depot and as a U.S. Navy special pilot training facility. The modern runway is in essentially the same place as the 1945 USAAF North Field, originally the Japanese Motoyama No. 2 Airfield.

At any given time about 350 JSDF personnel are posted here and though the airfield is strictly for military use, commercial flights carrying Veterans are frequent visitors.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Field_(Iwo_Jima)
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Coordinates:   24°47'1"N   141°19'22"E
This article was last modified 14 years ago