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Black Sands...South Side
of Iwo Jima
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Bottom of
crater...Mt. Suribachi
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Collecting Rain Water on
Base
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Crater of
Mt. Suribachi
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Fire Engine...Control
Tower in Background
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From
Guam...Riding Out Typhoon
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Looking Down on North
Side
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Looking
South
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Manning
Monument
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South
Side
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Monument
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North
Side
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Road Down to South
Shore
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Road to top
of Mt. Suribachi
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South Beach
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Temporary
Encampment
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Unknown at Base of
Suribachi
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USO New
Years - 1955
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Flag Raising
Carving
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Across from
Base Ops
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Base Ops
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Base
Theater
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Looking Towards
Generators
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Morse
Positions with Budwiser the Dog
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Sked 521 Bad
Landing
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Sked 521
Damage #1
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Schedule 521, the Friday
C124, victim of the downdrafts at that end of the
runway. Some of the guys of board returning from
R&R said they didn't realize anything happened
until they were told to get out right
there.
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Crews came
down from Tachi to work on the aircraft but I don't
think it ever flew again.
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Sked 521 Damage
#2
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Sked 521
Damage #3
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British Built Hastings
from New Zealand. This was a British Hastings
transport from New Zealand. As with
other things from down under, I noticed that the
propellors seemed to rotate in the opposite
direction from the U. S. aircraft.
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C-54
Refueling to Return to Tachikawa AFB. This might
have been one of the trusty C-54s you wrote
about. Called Schedule 321 on the radio when
leaving Tachi, they flew in on
Wednesdays.
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C-124 Refueling to
Return to Tachikawa AFB. The C-124s were Schedule
521 and came in on Fridays.
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Iwo Jima BX
and Snack Bar. I forgot we had a snack bar at the
BX. I think the bowling alley and dining hall
were in front of that
building.
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Jap Fishing Net Floats
-- Maybe. Rusty round balls I'm guessing were used
by Japanese fishermen to hold up fishing
nets. That beach was also strewn with smaller
blue glass balls presumable used for the same
thing. This shore seemed to be well populated
with crabs. I guess they were edible, but had
no way to cook them.
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Looking
Towards Base from Suribachi.
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Sulphur Pits -- I
Think
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Swimming
Beach. The swimming beach when conditions were too
rough for swimming. The people on the cliff were
trying to spot someone who got caught in the
undertow. We did see him a couple times but
he quickly disappeared with each wave and was never
found.
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