Naval Support Facility Kamiseya
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
NSF Kamiseya (UIC 0557A) is a detachment of U.S. Naval Air Facility (NAF) Atsugi, Japan. The facility is located on the Kantō Plain, approximately three miles (5 km) northeast of NAF Atsugi, and 7.55 miles (12.15 km) WNW of Yokohama. The base consists of 587 acres (2.4 km²) with 110 acres (0.4 km²) within the fence line. It has 184 buildings (including three bachelor quarters and 68 housing units) and a plant property value of $100 million. Base population consists of 300 sailors, their families and personnel who work on the facility.
[edit] External links
After WWII this former Japanese Imperial Navy torpedo manufacturing facility was used by the United States Navy as a radio communications intercept station until it ceased such operations in the late 1990's. On September 24, 1965 a fire broke out in one of the operational buildings, killing twelve United States military personnel. Most of the deaths occurred because the men were unable to escape through a locked exit, and were overcome by the smoke. Although the official investigation listed faulty electrical circuity as the cause of the fire, some eyewitness accounts attributed it to failure in a recently-installed incinerator, which had been improperly vented through the wall and subsequently caused the wall to ignite.
 |
This Kanagawa location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
