To Japanese ground troops, it was known as "whistling death." Such was the fear inspired by the F4U Corsair, the Stratford-built American fighter plane, as it swooped in to bomb and strafe Japanese ...

More than 12,500 examples of this aircraft were manufactured by Vought beginning in 1940, with final delivery of 1953, in what is known as the longest production run of any piston-engined fighter in U ...

★ Vought FG-1D Corsair ★ Another fighter powered by the Pratt & Whitney R-2800, the Corsair was intended for the Navy, but the initial designs provided pilot visibility too poor for carrier landings.

The airplanes of the Second World War have been incredible machines. Designed and built on fast-forward to meet the ever-changing requirements of combat situations, they all, almost without exception, ...

It was December of 1950, and thousands of US marines desperately struggled to withdraw across the North Korean mountains in a ...

The F4U Corsair was built for the US Navy, yet Britain’s Fleet Air Arm flew over 200 of them from 4 carriers in brutal sea conditions. From dogfights with Japanese Zeros to supporting Pacific landings ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — A famous piece of ...

In the European Theater of World War II, the P-51 Mustang was the top aircraft when it came to shooting down or otherwise nullifying Axis airpower. In the Pacific, planes like the P-38 Lightning ...

It was up to supervising sound editors Will Files and Matt Yocum and dialogue and ADR supervisor Eliza Zebert to build the soundscape for Korean War-set “Devotion,” a story that centers on the ...