Historic Flight: USMC Goodyear FG-1A Corsair with VMF-114 at Peleliu Airfield – Sept 29, 1944

USMC Goodyear FG-1A Corsair with VMF-114 at a Peleliu airfield – September 29, 1944

Note Curtiss R5C-1 transport plane in the background

FG-1A BuNo 14513 was lost off Palau on November 6, 1944

The FG-1 was the designation for Corsairs that were license-built by Goodyear, to the same specifications as the Vought Corsairs. Goodyear began delivery of FG-1 Corsairs in April 1943, and continued production until the end of the war, delivering around 4,007 FG-1 series Corsairs, including sixty to the RNZAF and 857 to the RN as Corsair Mk IVs.

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