Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Aircraft and Vehicles => Topic started by: GtoRA2 on December 21, 2001, 05:34:00 PM
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Guys
Anyone know when this started to be delivered to the Navy and Marine Corp?
If you know can you give me your source?
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The corsair began delivery to the marine corps as soon as the navy figured it was junk and could not be flown safely. It then began delivery to the navy when they saw how well the marine corps used it and shot down so many enemy a/c with it :)
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Chance Vought F4U Corsair (http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~pettypi/elevon/baugher_other/f4u.html)
...At the end of June 1941 the US Navy ordered 584 F4U-1 fighters. The first of these would appear a year later, in June 1942. At that time Brewster and Goodyear were already tooling up to join the Corsair production program....
...The first production F4U-1 made its first flight on 25 June 1942. The USN received its first aircraft on 31 July....
...The first USMC unit to equip with the F4U was VMF-124, which was declared operational on 28 December 1942. VMF-124 was quickly deployed to Guadalcanal, where it flew its first combat mission, also the first of the F4U, on 11 February 1943. Fighting over Guadalcanal was intense. The first air-to-air combat took place on the 14th, when a mixed force of P-38s, P-40s, PB4Ys and F4Us lost ten aircraft to the Japanese, and claimed four A6M "Zero" fighters...
...Within six months, all USMC units in the Pacific were equipped with the F4U. The production was extremely rapid, and by August 1934 a thousand aircraft had been delivered. Final production of the F4U-1 was 5559, including the 2010 FG-1s built by Goodyear and 735 F3A-1s built by Brewster...