Miyazaki Airport was built in 1943 as a former Imperial Japanese Navy flight training field from which some pilots took off on suicide attack missions.
A number of unexploded bombs dropped by the U.S. military during World War II have been unearthed in the area, Defense Ministry officials said.
The US Army Air Corps ... cratering runways since 1942!
ReplyDeleteDate of construction: Boss, we use metal detector? Boss: Nah. Nothing here. Fast forward forty years or so - KABOOM! It is good that no flights were happening at this moment.
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