Tsunami-Hit Airport Opens After U.S. Helps Clear 5,000 Cars
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Sendai Airport, engulfed by Japan’s March 11 tsunami, resumed commercial flights today after Self-Defense Forces and the U.S. military helped clear uprooted trees, houses and about 5,000 vehicles thrown about by rushing water.
“Nothing compares to the scale and absolute destruction of what went on up there,” U.S. Air Force Colonel Robert Toth, 45, said by phone yesterday from Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan.