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| Caption | F4U-2 Corsair night fighters with Night Fighting Squadron VF(N)-101 lining up for an exercise flight aboard USS Intrepid as the ship sailed south from Hawaii toward the Marshall Islands, Jan-Feb 1944. Photo 1 of 2. ww2dbase | |||||||||||||||||
| WW2-Era Location Name | Pacific Ocean | |||||||||||||||||
| Date | Feb 1944 | |||||||||||||||||
| Photographer | Unknown | |||||||||||||||||
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| Source | ww2dbaseUnited States Navy | |||||||||||||||||
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| Added By | David Stubblebine | |||||||||||||||||
| Photo Size | 5,776 x 4,519 pixels | |||||||||||||||||
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"All that silly talk about the advance of science and such leaves me cold. Give me peace and a retarded science."Thomas Dodd, late 1945
13 Apr 2023 02:19:04 PM
Note the radar dome on the right wings of the Corsairs. This is what identifies them as Night Fighters. This was among the first operational carrier deployments of the Corsairs where many of the aircraft’s low speed handling quirks were identified. Note also the F6F Hellcats and SBD Dauntless aircraft on the flight deck.
Other sources identify this image as showing the Corsairs taking off for a strike on Truk but the Corsair night fighters were not used in that operation.