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Originally Posted by sygazelle
The F4U Corsair is one of my favs too. My dad flew the Corsair in Korea with the Checkerboard Squadron. Looking through his log books I discovered that flew many planes, but his favorite was most certainly the Corsair.
Here's a pic of my dad back in the day.
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The irony is that in 1943-44 the F4U was kept off carriers because of "lack of carrier suitability." That changed in 1945 and by the Korean war period, the Marines, such as your dad, operated F4Us off of smaller carriers (USS Bataan CVL 29 in your photo) and even smaller escort carriers (CVEs). The F4U stayed in the fleet until past the end of the Korean war before finally being replaced by jets.