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Airport ops, etc... wartime Iwo Jima (Read 662 times)
Feb 15th, 2010 at 10:37pm

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Excellent slideshow of photos of life on and around the airfields of Iwo... WARNING: contains some photos of dead people and way too many photos of destroyed aircraft.

http://picasaweb.google.com/7thfighter/IwoJima?authkey=Gv1sRgCIW06db_6oth&feat=e...
 

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Reply #1 - Feb 16th, 2010 at 12:02pm

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Thanks for the "Link" Sean...excellent... Wink

The Army Air Force must have lost as many P51s too Crosswind Landings as they did in actual combat.

I remember my Dew Line Flying Days in the Daks/C47s and Canso aircraft.  The wind off Hudson Bay could push an aircraft off landing track no matter how hard you tried to do a crosswind approach.
Airfields next to water make excellent training fields because of the winds and weather but carrying loaded weapons and lots of fuel made there location dangerous.  Hell what do the ground bound college boys know about flying anyways.   Grin

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug
 

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug
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Reply #2 - Feb 16th, 2010 at 12:45pm

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Stunning photos.  Had not seen any of these before.  The reality of war hits you with stuff like this.  Thanks for that.
 
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Reply #3 - Feb 16th, 2010 at 6:42pm

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Thanks for this one. Very interesting.
 

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Reply #4 - Feb 17th, 2010 at 5:05pm

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http://www.history.army.mil/html/bookshelves/collect/usaww2.html

The U.S Army in World War II:  the 'green books' published shortly after the war ended, for anyone who's interested in this subject, worth checking out, you may not know about these books.

I have the original printing of 'The Battle of Okinawa', gotten by my father who was there during the battle with the 27th Infantry Division, 102nd Combat Engineers.

This one is published in its entirety on that site, all 529 pages, including maps and photos, and contains an amazing inch-by-inch account of the battle.

Not all of the green books have been published online but there are references by title to the entire series.  Long ago I saw some of these in an obscure part of the University of Miami library.
 
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