Mt. Fuji---Atsugi Naval Airbase

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For those of you who have visited Mt. Fuji, that mountain was the first thing I saw each morning out my window when I was stationed at the bottom of the mountain at the Atsugi Naval Airbase. I was in Mag-11, VMJ-1 which was a U.S.Marine aerial photo reconnaissance squadron. I don't have many photos from the area but I did find two photos of our base movie theater and one of our planes. I returned to Japan last week and couldn't even find the town outside the base.

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Photos

Movie Theater Atsugi
This was the movie theater at Atsugi for the Marines in 1955

One of the Banshee jets
This was a photo plane in squadron VMJ-1

Mag-11 Champs
1955 and VJM-1 had an undefeated basketball team at Atsugi. That's me--number 7 in the photo

Yamata Japan
This was Yamata Japan just outside the back gate at the Atsugi Naval Airbase at Atsugi in 1955

My Model A
I had the only car in the squadron, a 1930 Model A. Only one paved road from Yokohama to Tokyo. Was painted the same blue as our jet planes. Wonder where that paint came from?