Southwest Japanese port

Usage examples of sasebo.

Well, it had been sitting for two months in dry dock in Sasebo, Japan.

So they flew us in to a Marine base in Japan and then we had to take a Japanese train all the way down to the lower islands and got to Sasebo the next morning and there she was.

They head for Sasebo, which is both the closest field for large aircraft, and has a pretty good off-the-tanker-and-into-the-airplanes fueling setup.

McCoy, because the aircraft that fly from K-l to Sasebo to take on fuel are very often empty.

Murakami was born in 1952 and grew up in the port city of Sasebo in western Japan.

Company was almost at authorized strength when they boarded the transport at Sasebo, and before they got into the landing barges at Inchon it was actually overstrength.

Martin had assigned his pilots all the fields on Kyushu south of Sasebo on the west coast and Saeki on the east, plus the sea lanes and harbors along the way, especially Sasebo and Nagasaki.

Coming back from Sasebo at 500 feet, Charlie sighted a George fighter above him.

One letter, on crinkly tissue paper, showed that as late as the Japanese-Russian War he had been caught running coal into Port Arthur and been taken to the prize court at Sasebo, where his steamer was confiscated and he remained a prisoner until the end of the war.

It was at Sasebo that that candy-ass "Marine" captain who had done the job on his finger had debarked from the air-craft in his splendidly tailored uniform.

A Marine brigadier general and a strikingly beautiful woman had put him and a Navy lieutenant on a C-54 bound for Sasebo.