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Cannon powered Corsair
« on: March 14, 2009, 01:02:40 PM »
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Cannon powered Corsair

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Re: Cannon powered Corsair
« Reply #1 on: March 14, 2009, 03:46:44 PM »
Wait a minute. How, cannon powered? :-think. Could it be that You meant cannon armed? :-think

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Re: Cannon powered Corsair
« Reply #2 on: March 14, 2009, 04:01:09 PM »
Letipapa, you 'blocked' my reply while I was sending it!

Since I provided this nice shot I can give the following details:
Photo is an original Chance Vought press release of 5 April 1945.
Text attached reads:
'More firepower to Blast the Japs: a Chance Vought F4U-1C Corsair, of the type so successfully from carrier and shore bases by U.S. Navy and Marine Corps fliers, is shown here with four 20 mm cannon, two in each wing. A number of cannon-firing Corsairs are in combat, while others continue to move from Chance Vought assembly lines equippped with the conventional six .50 caliber machine guns.'

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Re: Cannon powered Corsair
« Reply #3 on: March 14, 2009, 04:10:12 PM »
Oh! Well now it's all clear. For the moment I thought that No1 made a small mistake, or that I went crazy, :-green
Thanks for this explanation Nico. :-flo :-wave