CRIPPLED B-29 CRASHES ON IWO JIMA - Returning from a strike over Tokyo, this B-29 of the 21st Bomber Command came into Iwo Jima for an emergency landing. Brakes on the Superfort locked and the huge plane careened into the flight line, plowed through four Mustang fighters, and burst into flames. Two members of the crew were hospitalized for burns, two others suffered minor burns end the remainder escaped unhurt. Men in the foreground crouch behind a jeep to avoid exploding ammunition.
1st visible plane is San Antonio Rose; pilot Beaver Kinsel (later KIA). 2nd plane is Skeeter; pilot Joe D. Walker (kia July 20, 1945) This is the day the 45th landed on Iwo. The smoke is from a 78th FS plane that crashed on landing and hit two 45th FS P-51's
