51's and 29's on Iwo Jima (link to 127 photos)

jaybird · **Posted:** Sat Feb 20, 2010 11:49 am

Lots of carnage, but amazing photos.

http://picasaweb.google.com/7thfighter/ ... 7071380418

Pat Carry · **Posted:** Sat Feb 20, 2010 3:28 pm

Great stuff, thanks. I enjoy seeing anything about Iwo.

mustangdriver · **Posted:** Sat Feb 20, 2010 5:03 pm

Wow! I couldn't imagine being there.

jet1 · **Posted:** Sat Feb 20, 2010 7:11 pm

...what happened to all those wrecks? burned up?pushed into the ocean to make the island bigger? ???? :?:

Pat Carry · **Posted:** Sun Feb 21, 2010 10:05 am

jet1 wrote:

...what happened to all those wrecks? burned up?pushed into the ocean to make the island bigger? ???? :?:

I have always wondered about that also. How about all the wreckage that piled up on the invasion beaches during the 6 week battle?

McKConnor0307 · **Posted:** Sun Feb 21, 2010 12:38 pm

I would encourage anyone to read "Ghosts of Iwo Jima" by Robert Burrell. Any pre-concieved notions one has about the why and where of the Iwo battle, and, the subsequent justification of the dreadful cost in lives for use of the island as an airbase makes a fascinating read. Revisionist, to say the least. Draw your own conclusions.

Pat Carry · **Posted:** Sun Feb 21, 2010 12:49 pm

McKConnor0307 wrote:

I would encourage anyone to read "Ghosts of Iwo Jima" by Robert Burrell. Any pre-concieved notions one has about the why and where of the Iwo battle, and, the subsequent justification of the dreadful cost in lives for use of the island as an airbase makes a fascinating read. Revisionist, to say the least. Draw your own conclusions.

I will definately put it on my list. I cant seem to read enough books about the battle. A recent book purchase for me is Iwo Jima: Red Blood Black Sand by Charles Tatum who was in the 5th Marine Division on Iwo. I have seen him interviewed on many documentaries. I wonder if he is still alive.

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