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F-51D Mustang Kimpo AB Korea

American F4U-1 Corsair fighters (Chance Vought F4U-1 Corsair) from VF-12 in flight. VF-12 was the first American naval squadron to field the F4U Corsair. March 23, 1943

View from the hangar of American F4U-1 Corsair fighters (Vought F4U-1 Corsair).

American F4U Corsair fighters (Chance Vought F4U Corsair) at Long Beach Airfield in California and some FM2 Wildcats.

An American F4U-1D Corsair fighter (Chance Vought F4U Corsair) from Marine Fighter Squadron 511 (VMF-511) aboard the aircraft carrier USS Block Island (CVE-21).

F4U-4B Corsair

F4U-4B Corsair

The Fw 190 had already been in service for nine months, and the RAF still hadn't been able to get its hands on any of them. Those that had been shot down had fallen over territory controlled by the Germans or lay at the bottom of the Channel. Various plans were devised to steal one of

the Fw 190s of JG 26, but the night of June 23rd presented the opportunity that the RAF had been awaiting with such longing. Two Spitfire Wings were returning after a mission over Brittany in which they had had a brief encounter with the Fw 190s of III./JG 2. When the

British pilots, believing themselves safe upon sighting the Devon coast, were attacked by elements of the Gruppenstab and of the 7./JG 2 who had been following them from France. An intense aerial combat ensued that concluded when the fuel gauges began to complain.

The German aircraft dispersed, setting course for continental Europe; however, Oberleutnant Armin Faber (Group Adjutant of III./JG 2) became disoriented, directing his aircraft toward Exeter. With barely any fuel left, he headed for the nearest airfield, making a pass over

inverted and lowering the landing gear as a sign of victory, what he could not imagine was that it was the Pembrey airfield of the RAF. In this way, a new Fw 190 A-3 with no combat damage fell into the hands of the RAF; a true war trophy for British intelligence.