Osamu Ishihara (66), who was born and raised in Okinawa City, saw bombers taking off from Kadena Air Base to fight in the Vietnam War when he was a child. Those bombs were also dropped in large numbers on neighboring Laos, a country that served as a supply route to the front lines. ▼At the time, the Vietnamese people called Okinawa, which served as a base for these attacks, "the devil's island." Was it the same in Laos?
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Osamu Ishihara (66), who was born and raised in Okinawa City, saw bombers taking off from Kadena Air Base to fight in the Vietnam War when he was a child. Those bombs were also dropped in large numbers on neighboring Laos, a country that served as a supply route to the front lines. ▼At the time, the Vietnamese people called Okinawa, which served as a base for these attacks, "the devil's island." Was it the same in Laos?