Airport ops, etc... wartime Iwo Jima

[beaky]

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/ ... 3017118066

[Flying Trucker]

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

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.   ;D

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

[Apex]

Stunning photos.  Had not seen any of these before.  The reality of war hits you with stuff like this.  Thanks for that. 

[Steve M]

Thanks for this one. Very interesting.

[Apex]

http://www.history.army.mil/html/booksh ... saww2.html

The U.S Army in World War II: