Word: kasumigaura
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...whirlwind struck. Most of the regimented millions in Japanese war factories were already at their benches or assembly lines. But the Hellcats, Hell-divers and Avengers (perhaps also Corsairs and Dauntlesses) had other targets this day: the great complex of airfields around the capital, such as the Kasumigaura naval air base (used by both land and sea planes), 50 miles north of the city, and the Tachikawa army air base, 15 miles...
...world flyers (TIME, March 24, et seq.) landed at Kasumigaura, 90 miles from Tokyo, about one-quarter of their course completed. A loud chorus of banzais from a thousand throats, belonging to Japanese officers and bluejackets who were beribboned and bemedalled, greeted the aviators as they stepped from their machines. Hundreds of school children waving American flags shouted shrilly hundreds and hundreds more banzais. Major General Yasumitsu, Commander of the Army Air Service, was there, accompanied by Admiral Komoku, Chief of the Naval Air Service, American Army attaches, Governor Tsugeta of Ibarki Province and a delegation of 20 prominent citizens...
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