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    Tateyama 館山市 Chiba Prefecture | Honshū Japan
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IJN September 15, 1928
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Tateyama 館山市 is located at the southern tip of the Bōsō Peninsula on Honshū in Japan. Borders the Pacific Ocean to the east and south. To the west borders Tateyama Bay (Tateyama Wan) and beyond Uraga Channel (Uraga Kaikyo) and further to the north is Tokyo Bay and beyond Tokyo.

American missions against Tateyama
August 13, 1945

Tateyama Airfield
Located on Nojima Cape

Tateyama Seaplane Base
Located on Nojima Cape

F6F Hellcat Bureau Number 79496
Pilot Dozier crashed August 13, 1945 into the sea roughly 300m off the seaplane base.

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March 20, 2022

 

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