Kinnick High School - Yokosuka

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US Naval Base Yokosuka, Tomari-Cho Yokosuka-Shi, Kanagawa-Ken 238-001
latitude
35.29
longitude
139.68

Contact Info

DSN
243-7392
COMM
011-81-46-816-7392 | US Fax: 011-81-46-816-7278
Operating Hours
0725-1420 M-F

Kinnick High School was founded during the occupation in Yokohama Japan after World War II. The school is named after Nile Clark Kinnick, an outstanding scholar/athlete, winner of the Heisman Trophy in 1939, University of Iowa graduate and law student. He was killed during WWII and has become a symbol of the promise and potential of youth.

Nile C. Kinnick High School is a private school now located in US Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Japan. It was originally located in Yokohama, giving it the nickname Yo-Hi, but it was renamed for Navy aviator Nile Clarke Kinnick, Jr. in 1959, upon its shift from an Army to a Navy school.

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