US Officers’ Open Mess Menu Itazuke Air Base . FLU5034

United States Officers’ Open Mess Breakfast Menu Itazuke Air Base. Appear to be mostly from 1950s-1960s era. Size approximately 6 1/4 inches x 10 inches. Worn condition.   Additional Notes: The airport was built in 1944 by the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force as Mushiroda Airfield. After the war, the United States Air Force used the airfield as Itazuke Air Base from 1945 to 1972. Itazuke actually comprised three installations: Itazuke AB, Itazuke (Kasuga) Administration Annex and Brady Air Base (Camp Brady). Itazuke and the Kasuga Annex were on the mainland while Brady was in Saitozaki; on the peninsula (Umi no Nakamichi) that forms Hakata Bay. Part of the confusion with the names stem from the days when the annex and Brady AB were Army installations before the USAF took command in 1956. At its height, Itazuke AB was the largest USAF base on Kyūshū, but was closed in 1972 due to budget reductions and the overall reduction of United States military forces in Japan.   See Additional Information for shipping dimensions.