Camp Wood was a U.S. military base, located at the southern end of Japan, near Kumamoto.
[1] Americans stationed in Japan post-World War II were rated by ability in their closeness to MacArthur.
Camp Wood was the farthermost post in Japan and the poorest class soldiers were stationed here.
[2] Camp Wood, near Kumamoto, was the post Korea armistice station for half of the 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team—The Rakkasans.
The Boy Scout troop 38 won the Far East Council camping competition held at Kagoshima Bay in 1954.