And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
"But that's an F4U-1A, with the cage canopy! They can't land those on carriers, especially escort carriers like in that picture"*
ReplyDelete*Bullshit I've seen on the internet.
For the real story of the Corsair and it NOT being on carriers mid-war, see Tommy Blackburn's book on VF-17, the Jolly Rogers.....
John Condon's Corsairs and Flattops is a good account of Marine Corsairs flying close-support missions from escort carriers late-war....