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Iwo Jima , thats the west slope of Suribachi in the distance.
also too many different groups showing in the tails .

john szalay <john.szalayatatt.net> wrote in
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> Iwo Jima , thats the west slope of Suribachi in the distance.
> also too many different groups showing in the tails .


Z tails 500th BG based on Saipan
Circle W 505th BG based on Tinian
Circle R 6st BG Tinian
A 497th BG Saipan
V 499th BG Saipan
tri-I 468th BG Tinian
Sqr K 314th BG Guam
Tri-N 444th BG Tinian
Circle X 9th BG Tinian

Photo by Loomis Dean July 1945

"john szalay" wrote in message
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> Iwo Jima , thats the west slope of Suribachi in the distance also too many
> different groups showing in the tails .

Looks like things got crowded on Iwo with all those superforts coming in for
emergency landings...

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> "john szalay" wrote in message
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>> Iwo Jima , thats the west slope of Suribachi in the distance also too
>> many different groups showing in the tails .
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> Looks like things got crowded on Iwo with all those superforts coming
> in for emergency landings...
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Very crowded at times.

reportedly 2,251 B-29s stopped at Iwo for fuel or repair or as a final
stop with too much damage to continue . 36 of those while combat for the
island was still in progress.
the first of those landed with one end of the too small runway was in
US hands while the other end was Japanese .

42-65286 1st Bomb Squadron, 9th Bombardment Group, the first to land on Iwo
Jima, 4 March 1945.

"john szalay" wrote in message
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> Very crowded at times.
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> reportedly 2,251 B-29s stopped at Iwo for fuel or repair or as a final
> stop with too much damage to continue . 36 of those while combat for the
> island was still in progress.
> the first of those landed with one end of the too small runway was in
> US hands while the other end was Japanese .

Public domain footage of B-29s on Iwo: http://tinyurl.com/huyklk8