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    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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    Government including Kadena Air Base, the second-largest base in the United States Air Force. Kadena faces the East China Sea to the west. Kadena borders three...
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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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    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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    November 1968, a B-52 crashed at Kadena Air Base, on the island of Okinawa, Japan. The United States Air Force (USAF) Strategic Air Command (SAC) B-52D Stratofortress...
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    Corps Kadena airfield, (Naval Air Facility Kadena 1975–1992, now Camp Shields) Improved and used for USAAF bombers (1945 – present as Kadena Air Base) Ie...
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  • in 2018. On 19 November 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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    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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    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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    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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