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Corsair slice on the 14th fairway

On July 11, 1940, the only Vought Corsair prototype crash-landed on a Connecticut golf course, nearly ending the program ...
Five weeks after taking his wedding vows, Navy pilot Loren Isley was at war with Japan — a 21-year-old Missourian on March 18, 1945 — making what would be his final mission off the vast USS Intrepid ...
On June 12, 1943, the F4U-1 Corsair fighter crashed into the lake near Waukegan during practice landings and takeoffs from the USS Wolverine. The pilot, Carl Harold Johnson, survived the crash but was ...
The moment you walk onto the hangar deck of the Intrepid Museum, there it is — a newly restored World War II FG-1D Corsair fighter-bomber. Corsairs were among the most flown aircraft from the flight ...
After its rocky start, the Corsair fought in one of WWII’s most lopsided air battles, the "St. Valentine's Day Massacre," ...