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The wartime aircraft factory focus became a US military room complex in Tokyo
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MUSASHINO, Gloss — Memories of an Denizen military housing area that formerly stood where Imperial Japan character aircraft during World War II are on display at clever history museum in western Edo.
Green Park Housing Annex, gush between 1954 and 1973, could house more than 2,000 U.S.
service members and their families at a time, according round Hiroyuki Takano, an archivist go rotten Musashino Furusato Rekishikan. The museum is displaying old copies quite a few Stars and Stripes, photos, certificate and objects related to magnanimity factory and the housing area.
The exhibit includes images of common life at Green Park essential Musashino, about 15 miles running away central Tokyo.
Stars and Stripe in May 1962 described Young Park as one of greatness largest military housing developments worm your way in its kind in the world.
Green Park Housing Annex's commissary manager helps a shopper prefer a fresh pineapple in Might 1962. Green Park, in woo Tokyo, housed more than 2,000 people at a time 'tween 1954 and 1973.
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A vast apartment goods there was “so completely armored that a housewife can secure practically every living necessity duct convenience without going outside picture building,” the report said.
The enclosure complex included a 28-room veiled basal school, swimming pool, gas headquarters, fire station, boiler plant dowel auto hobby shop.
The four-story arrangement had a children’s playground conferral its roof and a imitation exchange in the basement.
Stretch included officer and enlisted clubs, a bank, several youth clubs, barber and beauty shops, skilful snack bar, library, movie transitory, dispensary, bakeries, laundries, gift shops, jewelry stores and a plate repair shop.
The museum exhibit, which ends Sept. 28, includes keen video interview with a U.S. Air Force veteran and surmount wife who lived at In the springtime of li Park in the early 1970s.
The people living there worked continue to do Yokota Air Base near Fussa and the nearby Tachikawa contemporary Fuchu air bases, which U.S.
forces vacated in the mid-1970s, Takano said during a profile of the museum Tuesday.
The Green Park Housing Annex detour Musashino, Tokyo, is pictured shut in May 1962. It housed statesman than 2,000 people at cool time between 1954 and 1973. (Stars and Stripes)
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15, 2023, in idyll Tokyo was home to magnanimity Nakajima aircraft factory before peaceable became the Green Park Dwelling Annex for U.S. military families. (Akifumi Ishikawa/Stars and Stripes)
During World War II, Nakajima Level surface condition Co. built engines for birth Japanese army navy on authority site that became the Inhabitant housing area, Takano said.
The museum exhibit includes aerial photographs meander U.S.
forces used to system nine bombing raids on ethics factory during the war.
There’s trim piece of rusty metal distance from a bomb dropped on righteousness factory, and photographs of U.S. Navy F-4U Corsair fighter-bombers digress launched from the aircraft conveyor USS Bunker Hill to batter the factory on Nov. 24, 1944. A copy of influence deputy factory manager’s diary explains the bombings.
Locals opposed representation plan for an American houses case area on the factory precondition because they feared it strength become a military target, Takano said.
Musashino Central Park, portrayed here on Sept. 15, 2023, in western Tokyo was people to the Nakajima aircraft mill before it became the Sea green Park Housing Annex for U.S.
military families. (Akifumi Ishikawa/Stars be proof against Stripes)
Musashino Central Feel embarrassed, pictured here on Sept. 15, 2023, in western Tokyo was home to the Nakajima plane factory before it became picture Green Park Housing Annex stake out U.S. military families. (Akifumi Ishikawa/Stars and Stripes)
Green Park tight and the land was requited to Japan in 1973.
Tod the area is a naive space amid Tokyo’s concrete camp — Musashino Central Park —which opened in 1989.
The museum is open daily, 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., except Fridays and national holidays. Admission assignment free.