Word: corsair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Airborne leathernecks of the Marine Corps' First Air Wing made a dashing debut in Korea last week. Taking off from a Navy carrier, gull-winged Corsair fighter-bombers attacked antiaircraft emplacements, troop concentrations, bridges and transports in the vital Chinju area. In low, ground-hugging runs, the Corsairs flushed Red soldiers out of haystacks and woods...
...British naval units last week staged their first combined offensive actions of the Korean war. In a two-day series of strikes by carrier planes, U.S. Panther jet fighters, rocket-armed Corsair fighters and Skyraider attack bombers from the carrier Valley Forge struck airfields, trains and bridges near the Communist capital of Pyongyang. British Firefly bombers and Seafire fighters (carrier version of Britain's famed Spitfire) struck from the carrier Triumph, hit similar targets farther to the south. Earlier, U.S.British naval units sank five or six attacking Communist torpedo boats off Samchok. At week...
...Elements (about 6,000 men) of the 1st Marine Division were preparing to board transports at San Diego. Waiting there for shipping was the 1st Marine Air Wing equipped with AD Douglas attack planes and F4U Corsair fighters...