United States Army Air Force at their base in the Japanese island of Iwo Jima, during World War II. A PV-1 plane of the U.S. Air Force makes crash landing on landing strip. Plane makes a belly landing and crashes into fields close to the strip. Crew moves towards the crashed plane in a jeep. Injured pilot taken out on a stretcher and sent for treatment in ambulance. Ruptured part near the cockpit. Crew surrounds the plane.
United States Army Air Force at their base in the Japanese island of Iwo Jima, during World War II. A PB-4Y-1 plane of the U.S. Air Force lands on landing strip. Crew and airmen surround the plane. Other planes parked at distance from runway. The damaged elevator of the plane. Flak holes in the plane.
United States Army Air Force soldiers at their base on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima, during World War II. A fuel tanker parked near the B-29 bombers of the U.S. Air Force. Fueling of the B-29 bombers from the fuel truck. Pilots and crew members stand near the plane and discuss missions and strategies. Two airmen stand on fins of the plane as fuel is filled. Other planes parked nearby.
United States Army Air Force airmen at their base in the Japanese island of Iwo Jima, during World War 2. They stand on a ridge watching cleanup operations at site where P-51D 44-63912 "Miss Jackie" of the 531st Fighter Squadron, 21st Fighter Group suffered severe damage from a ground loop at Central Field, Iwo Jima. Other P-51s parked on the flightline in background. The site is surrounded by Airmen cleaning up and salvaging equipment and parts. Machine gun ammunition belts from the wreck. Men look beneath the damaged plane.
73rd bombardment wing of the 20th Air Force of the United States Army Air Force at Isley Field Base in Saipan, Mariana Islands during World War II. B-29 bombers take off for a mission to Truk, Caroline Islands under Japanese rule. Crew member inside a B-29 cockpit shoots other bombers flying above clouds, with film camera. A Japanese island as seen from the plane. Formation of B-29 bombers high in the sky.
Formation of U.S Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bombers, flying over Iwo Jima during World War 2. View from one of the aircraft of Japanese air field below. Nightime view of American anti-aircraft fire directed at Japanese bombers attacking Saipan. Explosions and fire silhouetting American aircraft on Saipan's Isely field during Japanese air raid. Burning U.S. B-29 bombers. Scene changes to Japanese aircraft destroyed on the ground at the air base on Iwo Jima. Bodies of dead Japanese airmen on the air field. Later view of P-51Ds from the 21st Fighter Group at Central Field on Iwo Jima, in the summer of 1945,after the field had been substantially upgraded to allow B-29 operations. A B-29 is seen displaying an "F" tail code. A formation of B-24 Liberator bombers in flight on a bombing raid. Waist gunner inside a B-24 firing at attacking Japanese fighter aircraft. A Japanese fighter going down in flames at night. View from a B-24 of another, off its left wing, flying in formation with its number 3 engine shutdown and propeller feathered. View from B-24 bombing oil facilities at Balikpapan, Borneo. Bombs bursting on the ground. Glimpse of B-24s in formation. Aerial views of bomb bursts carpeting target areas below. Aerial view of B-24s flying above smoke rising rapidly from bombs bursting below. View of bomb craters left below (probably from later reconnaissance flight).
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