Burning P-51 Mustang fighter plane on an airstrip, Iwo Jima, 1945
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Photograph. Burning P-51 Mustang fighter plane on an airstrip on Iwo Jima. Official Caption: "The tail of a plane, looming in the foreground, obstructs a complete view of a burning P-51 Mustang fighter plane on an airstrip on Iwo Jima. An ordnance man, attached to the Seventh U.S. Fighter Command, is seen fighting the flames. The plane was set on fire in a collision. Cross winds and clouds of volcanic dust are among the hazards which P-51 fighters and B-29 Superfortresses face in using Iwo Jima airstrips. 6663-E." Iwo Jima, Japan. 1945
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1945
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Items from the service of Isaac "Ike" Bethel Utley, who was born in Smith Mills, Kentucky on 3 March 1920. Ike enlisted in the Army Air Corps on 19 January 1942. He was shipped overseas to the European Theatre and worked with a supply division based out of the city of Naples with an office set up in a residential villa. Utley worked with the Office of War Information and used their photographs in news articles to inform soldiers of the progress of the war. At war's end, Utley returned stateside. A trunk full of over 800 photographs from the O.W.I. arrived on his doorstep from his office in Italy, sender unknown. This collection consists of those photographs.
Geography:
Iō-jima
Latitude:
24.783
Longitude:
141.333
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Fighter planes--American--Iwo Jima
Aircraft accidents--Iwo Jima
Fires--Iwo Jima