The crews arrived four days after the 24-foot tsunami had swept the plant, and in the ensuing 10 weeks they logged 507 flight hours crisscrossing the skies over Japan in a Beechcraft C-12 twin engine turboprop out of nearby Yokota Air Base.

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He wants the United States to return Yokota Air Force base in the far western suburbs or convert it to partial civilian use.

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