Crash crews removing damaged B-29 from runway after "Belly" landing on Iwo Jima

Figures working with a crane to remove a crashed B-29. Ink wash drawing on paper, surrounded by an ink border and mounted on cardboard. Paper size: 34.3 x 26.5 cm. Cardboard size: 35.5 x 27.9 cm. Figures working with a crane to remove a crashed B-29. Ink wash drawing on paper, surrounded by an ink border and mounted on cardboard. Paper size: 34.3 x 26.5 cm. Cardboard size: 35.5 x 27.9 cm. After training at Pendleton Field, Oregon, in aerial and ground photography, Baldwin served with the 20th U.S. Air Force as public relations photographer and artist. Stationed on Iwo Jima, he later covered the surrender of Japanese forces in Tokyo Bay, August, 1945. Gift of the artist, 1994.

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Original record: Crash crews removing damaged B-29 from runway after "Belly" landing on Iwo Jima
Collection: Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection
Date(s): 1945
Usage: Collection is open for research.
Rights Statement: No Copyright - United States
Creator(s): Baldwin, Richard Wood, 1920-2012 (artist)
Subject(s): Drawings (Visual Works)
Pendleton Field, Oregon
Tokyo Bay
U.S. Air Force
World War, 1939-1945
Type: still image

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