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A crane transports soil from a barge onto a conveyer belt during the process of building the newly finished runway. Construction of the new runway involved the joint efforts of the government of Japan, the Ministry of Defense, the Chugoku-Shikoku Defense Bureau, the Japanese construction industry, the U.S. Army Corps of engineers, the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Pacific, the Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni Facilities Department and others.
970101-M-0000M-001.jpg Photo By: Photo Courtesy of the Chugoku-Shikoku Defense Bureau

Jan 1, 1997
A crane transports soil from a barge onto a conveyer belt during the process of building the newly finished runway. Construction of the new runway involved the joint efforts of the government of Japan, the Ministry of Defense, the Chugoku-Shikoku Defense Bureau, the Japanese construction industry, the U.S. Army Corps of engineers, the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Pacific, the Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni Facilities Department and others.


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