When U.S. Naval Hospital Okinawa moved to Camp Foster in March 2013, it brought the only military emergency room on the island with it. Marines, sailors, airmen, soldiers and their families from...
Established on August 15th 1951, the Yokosuka Naval Ship Repair Facility played crucial roles in the repair and maintenance of the United States 7th Fleet during the Vietnam War and Korean War.
The two gantry cranes framing the ship on this patch belong to a shipyard founded in 1865, eighty years before the US Navy arrived. The Yokosuka Iron Works was set up that year under the Tokugawa...
Yokosuka has been home port to a forward-deployed American aircraft carrier since USS Midway CV-41 arrived on 5 October 1973. The yard is far older than the U.S. Navy's time there. It was built in...