High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yontan Airfield (also known as Yontan Airport) is a former military airfield on Okinawa, located near the village of Sobe on the Okinawa western coast. It was closed and turned over to the Japanese government in 1972. Today it is abandoned with a series of roads overlaid over the former airfield runways. Prior to World War II, Yontan was a civilian airport on Okinawa, and was taken over by the Japanese military during the war. During the Battle of Okinawa on April 1, 1945, United States Marine Corps and United States Army forces seized the airfield on the first day of the landing. It was quickly repaired and became the first airfield on Okinawa to be used by the American forces. Later, it was developed into a major American base for Army, Marine and Navy aircraft.

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