The F4U-4 Corsair was produced for longer than any other American piston-engine fighter. Its design started in 1939 and the last planes retired from military service in the late 1970s. It's last ...

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The F4U Corsair was built for the US Navy, yet Britain’s Fleet Air Arm flew over 200 of them from 4 carriers in brutal sea ...

The airplanes of the Second World War have been incredible machines. Designed and built on fast-forward to meet the ever-changing requirements of combat situations, they all, almost without exception, ...

The F4U-4 as workers placed it on board the Midway this week. Photo credit: Courtesy, Midway Museum The USS Midway Museum on Friday opened a new exhibit featuring a famous historical military aircraft ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. By V-J Day, September 2, 1945, ...

The Corsair performed well during World War II, claiming 2,140 air combat victories against 189 losses—an overall kill ratio of over 11:1. During World War II, many Japanese regarded America’s Vought ...

In the European Theater of World War II, the P-51 Mustang was the top aircraft when it came to shooting down or otherwise nullifying Axis airpower. In the Pacific, planes like the P-38 Lightning ...

More than 12,500 examples of this aircraft were manufactured by Vought beginning in 1940, with final delivery of 1953, in what is known as the longest production run of any piston-engined fighter in U ...

Enclosed in its own hanger at the Bamberg County Airport is one of the U.S.'s greatest fighter planes, a 1945 Chance Vought F4U-4 Corsair. One of the few to survive foreign wars, as well as the hungry ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. By V-J Day, September 2, 1945, ...