World War II witnessed tremendous growth in the size of American military aviation, from about 2,500 airplanes to nearly 300,000 by the war’s end. The Museum’s collection of 30 World War II-era ...
During this time, it had an 11-to-1 victory ratio over enemy aircraft in the Pacific Theater. The F4U-4 Corsair, flown by both the Navy and Marine Corps during World War II and the Korean War ...
and, most recently, at the Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, Fla. Visitors can find the F4U on the hangar deck of the USS Midway near other WWII aircraft.