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...Iwo & Fire Bombs. This made for safer as well as for more powerful operation. The morale of the air crews rose. Then the Marines (after 22,500 casualties) captured Iwo Jima, halfway between Saipan and Tokyo. Iwo had been intended primarily as a base for P-51 fighters which would accompany the B-29s over Japan. But Iwo turned out to be even more valuable as a rescue station where crippled or gas-shy B-29s could settle down on the way back from Japan...
...Tiny, hard-won Iwo, for weeks a haven for B-29s in trouble on their way home, was now being used as a filling station on the way north from the Marianas to Japan. Result: B-29s stopping at Iwo to take on fuel stepped up their explosives load to a maximum of ten tons...
...capture of Iwo Jima last March provided an ideal Dumbo base. Nowadays the rescue planes leave for their assigned areas as regularly as the bombers and fighters take off. The first boat, containing a "Gibson Girl" hand-cranked radio, was dropped May 30 to the crew of a plane shot up over Yokohama. Four crewmen drowned but seven were saved. With Okinawa also in U.S. hands a downed airman has an excellent chance of survival, even on the shores of Japan-unless Jap soldiers or fanatical civilians catch him first...
...Carter and Harrell were riflemen of Company A of the 5th Division's 28th Marines-the regiment that planted the flags on Mt. Suribachi. It was March 2, long after Suribachi had been secured, and the 28th had moved into the line along the steep ravines of northern Iwo...
This partially solved jigsaw puzzle still left out some stray pieces: the Army's Seventh Fighter Command, a part of the Seventh Air Force, is based mostly on Iwo Jima and under Navy command. It escorts not MacArthur's nor Nimitz' planes over Japan, but Spaatz...