Ie Shima Auxiliary Airfield (伊江島補助飛行場, Iejima Hojo Hikōjō) is a training facility, managed by the United States Marine Corps and a former World War II airfield complex on Ie Shima, an island located off the northwest coast of Okinawa Island in the East China Sea. After the Japanese captured the base the US retaliated with air raids from 14 June to 10 December 1945. The airfield as such was inactivated after 1946 but part of the former airfield is still used as a training facility for parachute drops and vertical take-off and landing aircraft such as the F-35. In WWII a bunch of bomber crews and fighters over the airbase used up all their ammo and that is where the phrase the full nine yards comes from. The bullets for the machine guns of US aircraft were in chains twenty-seven feet in length. Thus if a pilot was able to fire all his bullets off at one target he was said to have given his adversary ‘the full nine yards. bellow is the United States battle plan