Fighter F4U Corsair the Chance Vought company refers to those aircraft that forever left a mark in the history of world aviation. The involvement of these aircraft in the air battles over the Pacific ocean has a huge impact on the outcome. From 13 February 1943 until the end of the war aircraft F4U Corsair performed over the Pacific ocean 64 051 sortie. According to American data, F4U shot down in aerial combat was 2,140 Japanese aircraft, while losing only 189 machines. Thus, the ratio of losses in aerial combat amounted to 11.3:1 in favor of “Le Corsaire”, that is, for every 13 sorties of fighter aircraft had shot down one Japanese plane, which gave reason to believe F4U Corsair one of the best carrier-based fighter of the Second world war.
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