***They also ran 52s out of Kadena right before I got there but the Okinawans complained and they moved them to Guam.***
I was there at that time working on KC-135s. We were going into Koza City when there was a gaggle of B-52s taking off. The road ran near the end of the runway and there were dozens of Okinawans there taking camera snapshots.
There 69-71....18 months.....but I don’t remember the runway running over Koza (I spent a LOT of time there!) As I recall it was sort of east-west. I’ve google-mapped it recently but I can’t recognize anything - they’ve sure changed the place since I was there.