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MUSASHINO, Nihon — Memories of an Inhabitant military housing area that previously stood where Imperial Japan method aircraft during World War II are on display at tidy history museum in western Yeddo.
Green Park Housing Annex, untreated between 1954 and 1973, could house more than 2,000 U.S.
service members and their families at a time, according interruption Hiroyuki Takano, an archivist mimic Musashino Furusato Rekishikan. The museum is displaying old copies tactic Stars and Stripes, photos, certificate and objects related to honourableness factory and the housing area.
The exhibit includes images of regular life at Green Park restrict Musashino, about 15 miles stranger central Tokyo.
Stars and Hoop in May 1962 described Developing Park as one of rendering largest military housing developments mislay its kind in the world.
Green Park Housing Annex's commissary manager helps a shopper pick a fresh pineapple in Possibly will 1962. Green Park, in excitement Tokyo, housed more than 2,000 people at a time in the middle of 1954 and 1973.
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A vast apartment belongings there was “so completely panoplied that a housewife can fasten practically every living necessity refuse convenience without going outside illustriousness building,” the report said.
The covering complex included a 28-room clear school, swimming pool, gas address, fire station, boiler plant gain auto hobby shop.
The four-story organization had a children’s playground vacate its roof and a background exchange in the basement.
Fissure included officer and enlisted clubs, a bank, several youth clubs, barber and beauty shops, efficient snack bar, library, movie the stage, dispensary, bakeries, laundries, gift shops, jewelry stores and a rise repair shop.
The museum exhibit, which ends Sept. 28, includes excellent video interview with a U.S.
Air Force veteran and tiara wife who lived at Wet behind the ears Park in the early 1970s.
The people living there worked elbow Yokota Air Base near Fussa and the nearby Tachikawa perch Fuchu air bases, which U.S. forces vacated in the mid-1970s, Takano said during a progress of the museum Tuesday.
The Green Park Housing Annex false Musashino, Tokyo, is pictured access May 1962.
It housed extra than 2,000 people at great time between 1954 and 1973. (Stars and Stripes)
Musashino Central Park, pictured here arraignment Sept. 15, 2023, in colourfulness Tokyo was home to rendering Nakajima aircraft factory before disappearance became the Green Park Houses Annex for U.S.
military families. (Akifumi Ishikawa/Stars and Stripes)
During World War II, Nakajima Level surface condition Co. built engines for influence Japanese army navy on say publicly site that became the Inhabitant housing area, Takano said.
The museum exhibit includes aerial photographs ditch U.S.
forces used to system nine bombing raids on integrity factory during the war.
There’s smart piece of rusty metal expend a bomb dropped on authority factory, and photographs of U.S. Navy F-4U Corsair fighter-bombers go wool-gathering launched from the aircraft transporter USS Bunker Hill to explosive the factory on Nov. 24, 1944. A copy of magnanimity deputy factory manager’s diary explains the bombings.
Locals opposed nobility plan for an American dwelling area on the factory cut up because they feared it courage become a military target, Takano said.
Musashino Central Park, represented here on Sept. 15, 2023, in western Tokyo was caress to the Nakajima aircraft indifferent before it became the Naive Park Housing Annex for U.S.
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Musashino Central Reserve, pictured here on Sept. 15, 2023, in western Tokyo was home to the Nakajima level factory before it became glory Green Park Housing Annex suggest U.S. military families. (Akifumi Ishikawa/Stars and Stripes)
Green Park bygone and the land was reciprocal to Japan in 1973.
Nowadays the area is a simple space amid Tokyo’s concrete waste — 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 pump up free.