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The mid-fifties was a time when the military bases for the United States Armed Forces were phasing out. After leaving Itami Air Base, we were reassigned to Nagoya, the home base for the Fifth Air Force. Most of the Fifth Air Force had already departed their base and many of the military buildings were vacant. My husband flew helicopters (the large banana-shaped ones) in an Air Sea Rescue squadron.
 
We arrived in Nagoya and were assigned to housing outside the headquarters’ main base in an area called Smithtown. Smithtown was a small settlement of 21 military families. It was a nice little house that sat right on the edge of a canal. Our main recreation was getting together to play bridge.