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PostPosted: Mon Feb 19, 2018 9:00 pm 
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Chidori airfield # 1. 4 August 1944

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Smoke from a ship damaged in the East Boat Basin. Note shadows cast by the berms of Chidori airfield # 1

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View of both airfields under attack 16 June 1944. The runway of airfield # 2 is in the center, #1 lies beyond, Suribachi at top

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SB2C's over Iwo Jima on D-Day

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SB2C's over Iwo Jima

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SB2C’s give air support to initial landings on Iwo Jima

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An American Marine second world war cemetery on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima. The cemetery forms a cross shape under Mount Suribachi and the earth is volcanic ash.

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In the last photo, what's the meaning of the three markers that are stakes rather than crosses?

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Chris Brame wrote:
In the last photo, what's the meaning of the three markers that are stakes rather than crosses?


Perhaps unidentified? The crosses seem to have dog tags attached.


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Marine TBM Avenger Squadron on Iwo Jima 1945

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VMTB 242 Iwo Jima, 1945

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P-51D 15th Fighter Group based on Iwo Jima, 'Squirt' was the mount of Commanding Officer James Beckwith

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P-51D mishap Airfield #1 Iwo Jima, 1945

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Iwo Jima P-51's

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P-51D-25-NA 44-72637 (45th FS, 15th FG, 7th AF) in landing accident at South Field, Iwo Jima Jun 5, 1945

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A pranged B-29 on Iwo Jima

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P-51D's 46th FS, 21st FG, 7th AF Iwo Jima 1945

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P-51D 72nd FS, 21st FG Iwo Jima 1945

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Iwo Jima in Bonin Islands, closest to mainland Japan, captured in February 1945. USS Bismarck Sea (CVE 95)

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Chris Brame wrote:
In the last photo, what's the meaning of the three markers that are stakes rather than crosses?


Could they be Jewish and making a star of david would have been too hard...

the crosses seeming to have dogtags and those ones not is also an interesting detail...


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P-51D_44-63955 Tiny gay Baba 46th FS 21st FG Iwo Jima 1945

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P-51D Mustangs 531st FS 21st FG Iwo Jima 1945

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P-51D Mustangs 330, 320, 311, 303, 321, 306, 308 of the 531st Fighter Squadron 21st FG Iwo Jima Spring 1945

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North American P-51'S Of The 78Th Fighter Squadron, 15Th Fighter Group At Their 7Th Air Force Base On Iwo Jima, Bonin Islands. 10 March 1945

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P-51D Mustangs 21st FG on Iwo Jima

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P-51D's lined up on Iwo Jima

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North American P-51D Mustangs of the 46th Fighter Squadron on Iwo Jima prepare for a mission, March 1945.

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B-25 Gunships on Iwo Jima, late spring 1945.

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USMC F4U Corsair VMA-321 Hell's Angels Iwo Jima 1945

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USMC F4U Corsair VMA-321 Hell's Angels Iwo Jima 1945

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VMF-321 F4U-1D Corsairs on Iwo Jima 1945

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USMC F4U Corsair VMA-321 Hell's Angels Iwo Jima 1945

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FG-1D Corsairs from MAW-4 on the ground at Iwo Jima c 1945

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P-47N Thunderbolts, including (serial number 44-88572), and (serial number 44-88707) of the 414th Fighter Group, 7th Air Force lined up on hardstanding at Iwo Jima.

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TBM-3 of Marine Torpedo Bombing Squadron 242 (VMTB-242) of the Fourth Marine Air Wing pictured on Iwo Jima's newly captured Motoyama #2 airstrip

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TBM-3E Avenger of Marine Torpedo Bomber Squadron Two Hundred Forty-Two (VMTB-242) pictured taking off from Iwo Jima's Motoyama Number One Airstrip

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TBM-1C with Composite Squadron Eighty-Eight (VC-88), pictured on flight line at Iwo Jima Motoyama Airfield Number One

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P-47N Thunderbolt of the 413th Fighter Squadron belly-landed at Central Field, Iwo Jima, on September 7, 1945

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Marines and Army ground crews look over the first Sikorsky R-4 helicopter to land in the fighter strip on Iwo Jima, Mar 23, 1945

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Off Iwo Jima, the the LST-776 (landing ship tank), specially equipped with booms and cables for launching light aircraft, achieves the first successful launch

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Thanks for posting. Fantastic pics.

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Your welcome Adam, all I care about is that these photos will help us to remember what was sacrificed by so many so long ago. It's far too easy to forget the past and what happened in these photos to fade away. I love the old warbirds for what they are today but I despise the thought of what they had to be created for. I wish these photos were the last look at what war was about. Unfortunately that's only wishful thinking in my dreams.

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 22, 2018 9:48 pm 
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Mark, great photos and thanks for posting. So many people will enjoy watching a P-51 at an airshow or get excited about the next restoration, but it's really important that we remember where these aircraft came from and what they did, including the all people behind them.

Are some of the photos you posted original photos you have collected/scanned? Many I have seen before and some are official USAAF photos, but a few are very new to me. Are they from personal collections?

By the way, mind if I add a few 7th FC P-51 related pics???

'Lil Ole Meanie II' of the 457th Fighter Squadron, 506th FG
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Lineup of 462nd Fighter Squadron P-51's
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47th Fighter Squadron, 15th Fighter Group P-51 ready to take off
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