Mustang pilots fly rocket attacks over Iwo Jima

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On March 6, 1945, the first P-51 Mustang touched down on Iwo Jima at Airfield no. 1 with 7th Fighter Command Brigadier General Earnest M. “Mickey” Moore in the pilot seat. Twenty-six Mustangs followed from the 47th Fighter Squadron, 15th Fighter Group, and became the first of nine P-51 equipped squadrons from three different fighter groups to be based at Iwo Jima for the VLR, or Very Long Range missions to Japan. However, at this...

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