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To: GATOR NAVY

Ha! Atsugi you say!

That is where I landed as a kid. I still remember after we landed there, taxiing past rows upon rows of the Phantoms in that dark green and black camouflage. It was the first time I had seen those in the real world, and it made a mark on me. (I was an inveterate model builder and drawer as a kid, and that particular plane was one of my favorites...:)

Funny how that thread popped up, eh?


126 posted on 05/14/2012 2:17:08 PM PDT by rlmorel ("The safest road to Hell is the gradual one." Screwtape (C.S. Lewis))
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To: rlmorel; GATOR NAVY

While stationed near Camp Zama, Japan, in the mid/late 60s, we lived in Minami-Rinkan village. It was about three miles from the main gate at Atsugi. We spent a lot of time there at the big PX, theater and club. Our house was on the flight path to NAS Atsugi and when the carriers were making for Yokosuka, those Phantoms and Crusaders would rattle our fillings, and keep the babies awake. Bob Hope put on a show at Camp Zama but only wounded personnel in GI robes and pajamas were allowed in.


131 posted on 05/14/2012 4:02:45 PM PDT by Ax
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