Scenes around Camp Owada 1955

Scenes around Owada Receiver Site and Camp Owada, Japan
1955 - 1957
Under Construction

Introduction and photos by William C. Ronnenberg

I arrived in Japan in the Fall of 1955 for a two year tour of duty. I was assigned to the 1956 Airways and Air Communication Squadron (AACS) at Fuchu Air Force base near Tokyo and in turn was assigned to their receiver site called Owada Receivers. There were approximately eighteen men assigned to the site. Our job was operation and Maintenance. After about six months the air Force decided to close the site and we were moved to an Army site up the road called Camp Owada where we received quarters and rations. I remained at that site for the next eighteen months.

The Air Force site was reactivated before I left Japan and was operated by the Sixteenth Communications Squadron.

While there I took pictures at both sites and of the surrounding area. Many of the pictures were taken from high up because we had a Microwave tower and numerous antenna poles we could climb. The pictures are in two groups; the first is of the Air Force site and the second of Camp Owada.
Bill

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Owada Receivers (Air Force Site)

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Entrance to Owada Receivers in the snow	Snow scene looking into front gate	Bill standing by site identification sign	Site as viewed from an antenna Pole	Snow scene of site identification sign
Snow sculpture by the Japanese Guards	Snow sculpture by the Japanese Guards	The new fish pond at Owada Receivers	Trees, sidewalk & antenna wires	Snow scene looking out front gate
Farmer getting ready to pour honey	Farmer pouring honey	Special Manicure	Bill Ronnenberg at Owada Receivers	Snow covered Mt. Fuji
Farmers at work between site & Higashi Kurume	Sunset at Owada Receivers	Snow scene at Owada Receivers [1]

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