NNAM Birdcage Corsair Restoration Update ...

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National Naval Aviation Museum F4U-1 Birdcage Corsair Restoration Update as of June 2024.

"F4U-1 Corsair Bu.02465 rose to the surface of Lake Michigan following a retrieval effort sponsored by Chuck Greenhill. As with many other Lake Michigan aircraft salvage operations, the experts at A & T Recovery were behind this successful endeavor. The Corsair had slumbered at the bottom of Lake Michigan for seven decades, following a landing accident aboard the training carrier USS Wolverine on June 12th, 1943. Her pilot at the time, Ens Carl Harold “Harry” Johnson survived the ordeal almost unscathed, though sadly lost his life later that year in an aerial collision over Hawaii".
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And some original photos for comparison.

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F4U-1 Corsairs of Fighting Squadron (VF) 12 pictured in formation.


Birdcage Corsairs of VF-12, 1943.