Skidmore, Mike: Growing up in Tachikawa Air Base, Japan: 1958-1962, 1967-1969 - American Overseas Schools Historical Society
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Last updated 17 Jul 2024
Growing up in Japan My memories of Japan start on May 1, 1958 when our ship pulled into the port of Yokohama and seeing all these red flags waving and signs that said “Go home Yankees” . I ask me dad about it and he told me that some of the Japanese didn’t like Americans but I didn’t need to worry about it, but as a seven year old that made me wonder if we should go back to Kansas the next day on another ship. The place we would call home for the next 4 years was Tachikawa Air Base which was about 18 miles from Tokyo and we made the trip that first day in a very small taxi which took over 2 hours.
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