Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: UNKNOWN
Agency: PAN-ASIA PHOTO NEWS
Event Date: 1959-07-02
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.074563

Inscriptions:
Pan-Asia / "Photos"Captions: Verso: OKINAWA JET DISASTER KILLS SCHOOL / CHILDREN -- American marines carry / a seriously injured Okinawa girl to / a waiting ambulance near the scene of t / the jet crash. At least 16 persons / including nine school children were / killed and more than a hundred in- / jured when a pilotless US Air Force / F-100 Super Sabre jet crashed into / Miyamori ([illeg.]) Primary School / in the town of Ishikawa on Okinawa / on the morning of June 30. The / crash scattered destruction over a mile / area destroying 50 homes near the / school building. The town with a / population of 30,000 is located 18 / miles north of Naha, capital of Okinawa. / PAN-ASIA PHOTO NEWS / eu jp 7//2/59 kh//gsMarkings:Verso: OKINAWA JET DISASTER KILLS SCHOOL / CHILDREN -- American marines carry / a seriously injured Okinawa girl to / a waiting ambulance near the scene of t / the jet crash. At least 16 persons / including nine school children were / killed and more than a hundred in- / jured when a pilotless US Air Force / F-100 Super Sabre jet crashed into / Miyamori ([illeg.]) Primary School / in the town of Ishikawa on Okinawa / on the morning of June 30. The / crash scattered destruction over a mile / area destroying 50 homes near the / school building. The town with a / population of 30,000 is located 18 / miles north of Naha, capital of Okinawa. / PAN-ASIA PHOTO NEWS / eu jp 7//2/59 kh//gs

Tagasauris Keywords: Black and white; Casualty; Cloud; Day; Full-Length Portrait; Group of people; Group of people; Landscape; Male; Man; No Photostyle; Okinawa Prefecture; Outdoors; Panoramic; Soldier; Stretcher; Three-Quarter-Length Portrait; Toddler; United States Marine Corps; Unrest, conflicts and war; World War II
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: OKINAWA / ACCIDENTS
Retouching: Y