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The commemorative event took place at a memorial garden in Picauville, France, that marks the location where 20 U.S. service members assigned to the 37th Airlift Squadron died when their C-47 Skytrain crashed during air operations supporting the Normandy, News, features and commentaries about Air Force Reserve people, equipment and missions

By SETH ROBSON | STARS AND STRIPES Published: April 30, 2021 YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan – Teenagers are zooming around a newly renovated skate park at the home of U.S. Forces Japan in western Tokyo after convincing the base commander to approve the work. The skate park, on the east side of the base, was torn down last year after damaged asphalt and rusting equipment rendered it unsafe. No funding was available to restore the park. However, Yokota High School freshman and Boy Scout Thomas Vogel...

By JOSEPH DITZLER | STARS AND STRIPES Published: April 27, 2021 Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See more staff and wire stories here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. TOKYO – The U.S. military in Japan reported another six people, all in Okinawa, had contracted the coronavirus as of 6 p.m. Tuesday. As coronavirus case numbers fall to single digits at its bases, U...

By SETH ROBSON | STARS AND STRIPES Published: February 19, 2021 YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan – The commander of the largest U.S. military base in Tokyo has moved to assure residents they are safe after the body of a man who had been missing for 16 days was found in his own apartment building on the installation. “Over the past 12 months our base has experienced the deaths of six members,” Col. Andrew Campbell, who leads Yokota’s 374th Airlift Wing, said in a video message posted on the bas...

By ERICA EARL | STARS AND STRIPES Published: February 4, 2021 Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See other free reports here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. TOKYO — At U.S. bases across Japan, planners are arranging Super Bowl viewing parties they say are safe alternatives to small, private gatherings that have sparked several coronavirus clusters since November. T...

The fire at 8:30 a.m. caused no injuries and damaged no mail or parcels, according to an email from Lt. Stuart Thrift, spokesman for the 374th Airlift Wing.

HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS/JAPAN-VACCINES:US Forces Japan begins first wave of COVID-19 vaccinations

Reuters Health News Summary Sydney on alert after mystery cases but new infections remain low Australias most populous state of New South Wales (NSW) maintained its downward trend of new COVID-19 infections on Tuesday but authorities asked people to be on "high alert" after cases were detected outside the current virus cluster. A cluster detected in Sydneys northern beachside suburbs in mid-December has now grown to 129 cases and about a quarter of a million residents have been put under lock...