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Great Shot Mike !!

notice partial gear retaction AND the tail hook; see also
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMFA-312

Assigned to Marine Aircraft Group 11 on 25 June 1944, the squadron was transported to Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, where they received 24 new F4U-1D Corsairs.

LOVE IT, GREAT SHOT

Was the Corsair a torpedo launching plane?

Watch Black Sheep Squadron on HERIC (Heroes and Icons on Sarurdays at 6PM Central for great Corsair real time movie footage of shoot downs, lots of flight time, Take Off’s and Landings of the dramatized World War II episodes of Major Gregory "Pappy" Boyington and his USMC Attack Squadron 214, (The Black Sheep Squadron).

Sorry to disappoint the Mustang lovers (and I am one!) - but the Corsair is the most awesome fighter aircraft of WWII.

Great capture; love that folding, twisting gear!

Great shot, definitely 5* from me

William Owens-
Better yet, read ‘Pappy’ Boyington’s autobiography, “Baa Baa Black Sheep”. I still have the copy I bought in 1958, ,- $.50 - and when my SIL and I were the museum in Quantico a few years ago, I purchased a copy for him. I think I paid $8.95.