OtherUS Marines In Okinawa

Cachets should be listed in chronological order based on earliest known usage. Use the postmark date or best guess. This applies to add-on cachets as well.

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HISTORICAL NOTE
        MCB Camp S. D. Butler located 300 miles due south of mainland Japan on the island of Okinawa. Perhaps the most unique characteristic about Okinawa is that unlike most duty stations, MCB Camp Butler is physically separated throughout the island into a number of different camps.
        Okinawa is home to MCAS Futnema and MCB Camp S. D. Butler, which includes: Camp Kinser; Camp Foster; Camp Courtney; Camp Hansen; Camp Schwab; and Camp Gonsalves / Jungle Warfare Training Center. Okinawa is also home to five USMC major commands: III Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF); Marine Corps Base (MCB); 3rd Marine Logistics Group (MLG); 3rd Marine Division (MARDIV) and 1st Marine Aircraft Wing (MAW)
        Navy presence on Okinawa includes Commander Fleet Activities, Okinawa with its tenant commands and the U.S. Naval Hospital, Okinawa on Camp Foster. Naval facilities are physically located throughout Okinawa (on Kadena Air Base, Camp Shields and White Beach Naval Facility). There is also a significant Air Force and Army presence on Okinawa located at Kadena Air Base and Torii Station.

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MARINE CORPS BASE SMEDLEY D. BUTLER, OKINAWA, JAPAN

Named in honor of Major General Smedley D. Butler, USMC, MOH.

 

N/A			1978-03-31 Locy Type 2 U.S. MARINE CORPS / FPO 98773
			Marines mail

From the Greg Ciesielski collection.

 

N/A			1980-06-18 Locy Type 7 U.S. MARINE CORPS / FPO 98773
			Marines mail

From the Greg Ciesielski collection.

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MARINE CORPS BASE SMEDLEY D. BUTLER, CAMP FOSTER (Formally Camp Zukeran), OKINAWA, JAPAN

Named in honor of PFC William A. Foster, USMC, MOH.

 

N/A			1979-02-05 Locy Type 2 U.S. MARINE CORPS / FPO 98773 ZUKERAN
			Collectors request

From the Greg Ciesielski collection.

 

N/A			1979-02-05 Locy Type 9 U.S. MARINE CORPS / FPO 98773 ZUKERAN
			Collectors request

From the Greg Ciesielski collection.

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MARINE CORPS BASE SMEDLEY D. BUTLER, CAMP COURTNEY, OKINAWA, JAPAN

Opened in January 1956, named in honor of Major Henry A. Courtney, Jr., USMC, MOH

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MARINE CORPS BASE SMEDLEY D. BUTLER, CAMP LESTER, OKINAWA, JAPAN

Named in honor of Corpsman Fred F. Lester, USN, MOH

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MARINE CORPS BASE SMEDLEY D. BUTLER, CAMP KINSER (Makiminato Service Area), OKINAWA, JAPAN

Named in honor of Sgt. Elbert L. Kinser, USMC, MOH

 

N/A			1978-10-11 Locy Type 2 U.S. MARINE CORPS / FPO 98773 MAKIMINATO
			Collectors request

From the Greg Ciesielski collection.

 

N/A			1979-01-22 Locy Type 2 U.S. MARINE CORPS / FPO 98773 MAKIMINATO
			Collectors request

From the Greg Ciesielski collection.

 

N/A			1981-06-24 Locy Type 2 U.S. MARINE CORPS / FPO 98773 KINSER
			Collectors request

From the Greg Ciesielski collection.

 

N/A			1979-01-22 Locy Type 9 U.S. MARINE CORPS / FPO 98773 MAKIMINATO
			Collectors request

From the Greg Ciesielski collection.

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MARINE CORPS BASE SMEDLEY D. BUTLER, CAMP HANSEN, OKINAWA, JAPAN

Named in honor of Pvt. Dale M. Hansen, USMC, MOH

MARINE CORPS BASE SMEDLEY D. BUTLER, TORII STATION, OKINAWA, JAPAN

Named for the Torii, or Japanese Shinto gate.

 

N/A			1979-04-30 Locy Type 2 U.S. MARINE CORPS / FPO 98773 TORII STATION
			Collectors request

From the Greg Ciesielski collection.

 

N/A			1979-02-05 Locy Type 9 U.S. MARINE CORPS / FPO 98773 TORII STATION
			Collectors request

From the Greg Ciesielski collection.

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MARINE CORPS BASE SMEDLEY D. BUTLER, CAMP SCHWAB, OKINAWA, JAPAN

Opened in 1959. Named in honor of PFC Albert E. Schwab, USMC, MOH

 

N/A			1979-03-17 Locy Type 2 U.S. MARINE CORPS / FPO 98773 SCHWAB
			Collectors request

From the Greg Ciesielski collection.

 

N/A			1979-03-17 Locy Type 9 U.S. MARINE CORPS / FPO 98773 SCHWAB
			Collectors request

From the Greg Ciesielski collection.

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MARINE CORPS BASE SMEDLEY D. BUTLER, CAMP ONNA POINT, OKINAWA, JAPAN

Closed in 1981. Home of the Third Reconnaissance Battalion (Rein)

 

N/A			1979-03-17 Locy Type 2 U.S. MARINE CORPS / FPO 98773 ONNA POINT
			Collectors request

From the Greg Ciesielski collection.

 

N/A	File:GregCiesielski Okinawa OnnaPoint 19800526 2 Postmark.jpg		1979-03-17 Locy Type 9 U.S. MARINE CORPS / FPO 98773 ONNA POINT
			Collectors request

From the Greg Ciesielski collection.

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MARINE CORPS AIR STATION, MCAS FUTENMA, OKINAWA, JAPAN

1st Marine Air Wing

 

N/A			1979-01-16 Locy Type 2 U.S. MARINE CORPS / FPO 98773 FUTENMA
			Marines Mail

From the Greg Ciesielski collection.

 

N/A			1980-01-22 Locy Type 2 U.S. MARINE CORPS MCAS / 98764 U-2
			Collectors request

From the Greg Ciesielski collection.

 

N/A			1980-01-22 Locy Type 9 USMC MCAS 98764 / U-2
			Collectors request

From the Greg Ciesielski collection.

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US NAVY BASE, WHITE BEACH, OKINAWA, JAPAN

 

N/A		N/A	c 2010
			Map of Okinawa and locations of the bases

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