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It was the Brits that taught the USN to make a constantly curved approach keeping the carrier in sight. The USN did operate the F4U after that.


Imagine flying your whole mission, knowing you still had that ordeal coming up when you were done eek

The first guy to try that deserves a medal, I mean it ain't like they could eject if things went south.

Birdwatcher

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