Word: vought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seafaring air group commander was barrel-chested, 44-year-old Colonel Albert D. Cooley, veteran of Bougainville. Colonel Cooley will never become an admiral: the Marine carriers will be manned and commanded by Navymen. But he will boss a potent striking force: several squadrons of gull-winged, bomb-bearing Vought Corsairs, the first to be put in carrier service. This week his pilots were hard at work at carrier training at a California base, hoped to be ready for sea duty soon...
...Navy no longer needed so many Corsairs, and because the Navy considers Brewster, harried by bad management and long strangled in one of the most rigid labor-union contracts in the U.S., the least efficient producer. (The Navy said Corsairs cost $72,000 at Brewster; $63,000 at Chance-Vought, and $57,000 at Goodyear, for identical planes...
Last month Major Richard Ira Bong, a P-38 Lightning pilot, shot down his 26th and 27th planes over New Guinea, breaking a tie which had long existed between two marine pilots, Major Joe Foss (Grumman Wildcat) and missing Major Gregory Boyington (Vought Corsair). Thus Dick Bong became the U.S. Ace of Aces...
Like Captain Bong, the other seven, all Marines, racked up their records in the Pacific. Tops with 26 each are veteran Major Joe Foss (Grumman Wildcat) and Major Gregory Boyington (Vought Corsair), who disappeared after knocking down his last victim (TIME...
...demonstrable good until it has met and passed the final test of battle. Last week the U.S. had a glow ing report on the first combat performance of its newest fighter plane, the Navy's Grumman Hellcat (F6F). It also got a well-documented secondary report on the Vought Corsair (F4U), already one of the hottest things in the Pacific...