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 Corsair was like a seasoned prizefighter who could take punches on the chin and refuse to go down. On many of our fighter sweeps ... I slowed the plane down to lose a little altitude.

Powered flight ultimately gave the world the first fighter aircraft in 1915 when the French figured out how to strap a machine gun to a plane and ... To power the jet, Corsair installed a single ...