Saturday, February 13, 1943. Corsairs deploy, Women Marines.
F4U Corsairs arrived at Henderson Field, Guadalcanal, their first combat deployment. The first actual combat would take place two days later.
While a carrier plane, the Corsair was at first deployed from land airstrips out of concerns that the high angle at which it sat when on its tail would make carrier operations difficult. This was rapidly proven a false fear, as the Royal Navy put their Corsairs to carrier operations immediately.
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