- This is the Higashi Yamato South Park.
- Is there anything here?
- Something is put.
- Rubbishes?
- They are not rubbishes.
- They are works of art.
- What?
- A monument.
- For what?
- Look at that building.
- A dirty building.
- Should rebuild it.
- No.
- Why not?
- That building has the precious history.
- What is that?
- Hitachi plane factory transformer substation.
- Make an airplane?
- There were many military factories in this neighborhood.
- Is it old days?
- During the Pacific War.
- Until 1945?
- This neighborhood received the intense attack of U.S. forces.
- Was this building left?
- Yes.
- There are a lot of traces of the bullet in the front.
- Wow.
- It's like a movie.
- The first is February 17 in 1945.
- Grumman F6F Hellcat attacked.
- What is Hellcat?
- Like this.
- This is different from what I had imagined.
- Retro plane.
- April 19.
- P51 Mustang attacked.
- What shape is it?
- This is P51.
- Those look the same to me.
- There is a propeller.
- April 24.
- B29 dropped 1800 bombs.
- 1800 bombs?
- Yeah.
- Is it big?
- Very large.
- A bullet penetrates.
- The next. We will go to the Yokota base.
Related spot
- Military town Tachikawa
Tachikawa was a huge military city. There was military base in the north side and a lot of munitions factories. - The village sinks
Keisyo gate is a gate of the temple of the village which there was in the bottom of a lake. - Small town of Leprosy
In old days. The people were afraid of leprosy. The lepers could never go out of Tama zenshoen Sanatorium. - Yokota Air Base
Why is this name Yokota base camp? USA didn't know the name of this place in The Pacific War.