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Artistic background at Yokota, 1976

Artistic background at Yokota, 1976

Kaoru Miyazato
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Yokota Air Base, Japan, 1976: Kaoru Miyazato, a sixth-grader at Yokota West Elementary School, practices his yo-yo techniques in front of a rank of pop art partridges. The stylized birds are part of a base Civil Engineer Squadron project aimed at making the base more attractive.