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Title: Iwo Jima, no easy days on the line
Post by: Grayeagle on May 14, 2010, 10:37:23 AM

I dont know if any have run across this, link was sent to me by a fellow vette enthusiast/airplane nut.

 http://picasaweb.google.com/7thfighter/IwoJima?authkey=Gv1sRgCIW06db_6oth&feat=email#slideshow/5299163150448181842

Very gritty look at a typical hard day on the line at Iwo, 1944-45.
You can almost feel the heat from that burning B-29.

-GE

Title: Re: Iwo Jima, no easy days on the line
Post by: uptown on May 14, 2010, 01:16:21 PM

Awesome pics!!!!!! Thanks for the post  :aok

Title: Re: Iwo Jima, no easy days on the line
Post by: Yenny on May 14, 2010, 02:35:16 PM

Zomg, it hurts to see so many P-51 on flames

Title: Re: Iwo Jima, no easy days on the line
Post by: whipster22 on May 14, 2010, 03:47:46 PM

Quote from: Yenny on May 14, 2010, 02:35:16 PM

Zomg, it hurts to see so many P-51 on flames

it does

Title: Re: Iwo Jima, no easy days on the line
Post by: MachFly on May 14, 2010, 04:20:25 PM

Thanks for posting

 :aok

Title: Re: Iwo Jima, no easy days on the line
Post by: 68Hawk on May 18, 2010, 02:19:37 AM

Very Amazing!   :aok

I never realized how many aircraft crashed on Iwo Jima.  They seem to have a nack for taking out several others as they do on those packed airstrips.

Thanks for posting!

Title: Re: Iwo Jima, no easy days on the line
Post by: Angus on May 18, 2010, 02:33:38 AM

Small island, - lots of aircraft.
BTW, that is why IWO was so important. While the losses of lives there were appalling, there was some gain too. After all it helped ending the war, and served well for emergencies.