| On June 11, 1965 a trailer fell from a U.S. helicopter during parachute exercises in the Oyashi Buraku of Yomitanson. The trailer fell on a 5th grade elementary school student, Takako Tanahara and crushed her to death. The village, school, and other organizations sought to end the exercises and opened a protest rally. Photograph courtesy of Okinawa Times Publishers "Shashin Kiroku, Okinawa Sengoshi" |
