Description
F4U-4 Corsairs #1. Three combat veteran Corsairs grace this set. First is a F4U-4 from the VF-713 Fighting Aces flying off the USS Antietam (CVA-36) in January 1952. This bird displays 11 mission markings and the large “H” on the fin denoting Air Wing 15 fighter squadrons. Next is another Korean vet, this time a Marine F4U-4B of the famous VMF-214 Blacksheep flying from K-3 (Pohang), Korea, 1950. The “WE” tail code was used by the Blacksheep during the entire war. Now for something completely different . . . the Central American combat veteran F4U-4B flown by the Honduran Air Force, F-96995, during the 1969 “Football War” (“Soccer War” to North Americans) with El Salvador.
