U.S. Airmen Quietly Reopen Wrecked Airport in Japan An American soldier directed the removal of tsunami debris at the Sendai airport on March 25.Credit...Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters NATORI, Japan — Last month, when a team of United States Air Force Special Operations forces reached the damaged Sendai Airport, just a mile from the coast, it found a devastated landscape of uprooted buildings, smashed veh