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Originally Posted by dpeters95
OK, well how about this making sense... The following is a list of British Pacific Fleet ESCORT CARRIERS that all contained F4u-1a squadrons:
HMS Slinger
HMS Arbiter
HMS Speaker
HMS Fencer
HMS Chaser
HMS Reaper
HMS Striker
HMS Ruler
They were all the same "class" of ship and their overall length was 492 feet 3 inches (150.04 m), pretty much the identical length (150 m) as the US Escort Carriers. I used the British carriers because the US carrier list was so long that it would have taken forever to trace down all the on board squadrons and their airplane compliment.
So that should make sense. I don't have all the spec sheets, etc., and I don't know what loads they carried, but those F4u-1A's could at a minimum fly off the Escort Carriers deck, ours currently can not...
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The British F4Us were not identical to the US ones. Among other things they had about 20 cm clipped off the wings.
Note that these British ships were lend lease Bogue Class carriers fitted with
catapults.
A random clip of F4Us corsairs taking off from a larger (non catapult) carrier ...
01-17-2012, 01:01 AM
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