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Originally Posted by masraum
Due to what my dad did, we were very limited in places that he could be stationed, Misawa, Japan; Edzell, Scotland; Diego Garcia; Rota, Spain; Guam; etc...(someplace in Germany, I think). My parents talked about going to Guam, but we ended up going to Japan instead.
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Yeah, we were kind of in the same situation. My dad was a civilian contractor for the USAF involved with tracking "spy" satellites. They had tracking sites at many of those same locations. The 6594th Aerospace Test Wing, Operating Location 10 was connected to Anderson AFB on Guam and was located on the northern most tip of the island on a deactivated WWII-era airstrip known as Northwest Field a few miles from Anderson.
My brother and I took up "Boonie Stomping" as a hobby looking for WWII relics in out-of-the way places. We had heard rumors of a place called the "Tank Trap" somewhere in the hills of the south end of the island. We finally located it and found a number of M4 Sherman tanks and a few armored personnel carriers that were shot up pretty bad up on a hill side. I have a few fuzzy photos and one clear one showing my brother clowning around with his machete pretending to be a Japanese straggler.
We thought this must have been the result of some fierce ambush. Turns out that after the war, the US military dragged them all up there for target practice.