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4 sie 2019 · Wakkanai was my first assignment after Syracuse and GAFB, Nov 2, 1962 – Jan 29, 1964. Worked on Hill 1 on Charlie Trick. Comfy dorms, great chow hall, plenty to do on and off base.
Dedicated to the USAF airmen that served at Wakkanai Air Station on northern tip of Hokkaido Japan.
A personal account of living and working at a remote ELINT base in northern Japan during the Cold War. Learn about the weather, the culture, the entertainment and the challenges of this unique assignment.
4 sie 2023 · A poem penned at Wakkanai in the 1950s, titled ‘A Hitch in Hell’, reflects not only the terrible living and working conditions, but also the feelings of loneliness and perhaps even despair which afflicted the airmen. Six of its stanzas are as follows: Wakkanai was the spot. In a land which God forgot.
19 mar 2011 · One of the very first posts I put up on EIP was about Wakkanai and that post ranks high among Google searches for the term. Every Wakkanai-searching visitor I've had of late clicks out to "Wakkanai Was My Home," which used to be the definitive website on the subject, and it was a real jewel.
Wakkanai is home to Japan's first nursing home built inside the central train station of its city, a novel approach to caring for Japan's growing elderly population that has since been imitated in several other cities.
14 maj 2024 · Most Japanese homes in our outlying area of Wakkanai had only an “in-house outhouse”, a pit toilet, usually in a corner of the house or sometimes recessed into a projecting enclosure, that could periodically be pumped out by a small “honey bucket” truck from outside the building.
