According to the Allies, one of the most critical aspects of winning World War II was establishing air superiority over ...

Today, when people look back at the Pacific theatre, there are two American fighter aircraft which are often remembered together . Those are; the Vought F4U Corsair, and the Grumman F6F Hellcat.

The F4U-4 Corsair was produced for longer than any other American piston-engine fighter. Its design started in 1939 and the last planes retired from military service in the late 1970s. It's last ...

In Brown's violent crash, his Corsair fighter came to rest on a snowy mountainside behind enemy lines. The impact snapped the nose of his plane, pinning the ensign within the wreckage. Smoke ...

His Corsair had gone down over Rabaul in the very fight that put him at the top. Over New Britain, U.S. fighter pilots saw their squadron leader, 23-year-old Army Major Edward Cragg Jr.