Vought Aeroplanes F4U Corsair Fine Art Aircraft Prints

The Corsair’s unusual wing leading edge intakes create a unique whistle at high speeds… because that’s the first noise when the plane approaches, the Imperial Japanese force’s nickname for the F4U was “Whistling Death.”

The Corsair was designed as a Fighter-Bomber for the US Navy and entered the war in late 1944. Early carrier “teething problems” lead the USN to transfer the Corsairs to the Marines for use as a land-based plane… where it forged a legacy as perhaps to most potent Fighter-Bombers in the Pacific Theater of Operations… flying just under 45% of all fighter sorties and dropping 70% of all Fighter delivered bombs.

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F4U-4 VMA 312 Checkerboards K-1 Airfield Korea Prints
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Fixed Wing Attack Squadron Marine Three One Two (VMA 312) originally converted to the F4U Corsair during WW2 flying their first combat sorties in early 1945. When the war ended, they briefly converted to Tigercats before transitioning back to Corsairs… this time the updated and higher performance F4U-4. In 1950, the Checkerboards deployed to Woson Korea.

BuNo 97116 is depicted ready for a ground support sortie from K-1 airfield. She is configured with eight HVAR 5-inch rockets and her wing mounted Browning M2 .50 caliber machine guns. She also carries a pair of 75 Gallon US drop tanks.

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