North Korea F4U-4 Corsair

shuck · **Posted:** Thu Nov 07, 2013 4:00 am

Have the two F4U-4 Corsairs at the Fatherland Liberation War Museum in Pyongyang ever been identified?

One of them has recently been reported as BuNo.96918 or 96916?

Many thanks

old iron · **Posted:** Thu Nov 07, 2013 7:40 pm

photos included here:

http://www.pbase.com/bmcmorrow/pyongyangmuseum&page=all

Both Corsairs are wrecks, but the museum has some nice Russian WWII era fighters.

shuck · **Posted:** Mon Nov 11, 2013 4:08 am

Thanks for the photo link

Adam Kline · **Posted:** Mon Nov 11, 2013 9:57 am

Very interesting stuff.

Chris Brame · **Posted:** Mon Nov 11, 2013 10:40 am

Is the ID of the A-26 tail known? Looking closely at the buzz number BC-20_ or BC-21_ and checking Baugher brought up two possibles:

Quote:

44-34200 (13th BS, 3rd BG) MIA after night mission in Korea Jan 6, 1952.
44-35210 (3rd BW, 90th BS) MIA on night intruder mission Korea, Jul 1, 1953.

Taylor Stevenson · **Posted:** Mon Nov 11, 2013 10:45 am

After looking at that link, I've come to the conclusion that the names of American museums need more artistic flair...

"The Smithsonian Institute of the Glorious Satisfaction of Manifest Destiny" etc.

Adam Kline · **Posted:** Mon Nov 11, 2013 5:56 pm

That's funny :lol:

jack973 · **Joined:** Mon May 28, 2012 11:14 am **Posts:** 215

I don´t remember where I read that this was the plane of Jesse Brown´s wing man who crashed the plane to save him. would this be the plane??

davsel · **Joined:** Tue Mar 17, 2015 2:59 pm **Posts:** 1

Chris Brame,

Can you direct me to the pic you are referring to above?
My grandfather was the pilot of the first plane you cite - down over Korea on Jan 6 1952.

JohnB · **Posted:** Tue Mar 17, 2015 3:24 pm

FlyPast magazine had some photos of the museum last month.
It featured a H-23 shot down in the Korean war...complete with a FY 1961 serial.
The editors missed that one.

Warbirdnerd · **Joined:** Fri Apr 30, 2004 7:34 pm **Posts:** 2923

davsel wrote:

Chris Brame,

Can you direct me to the pic you are referring to above?
My grandfather was the pilot of the first plane you cite - down over Korea on Jan 6 1952.

This is the A-26 tail. The photo is linked from the photo album in the link above:
(http://www.pbase.com/bmcmorrow/pyongyangmuseum&page=all)

Lynn Allen · **Posted:** Tue Mar 17, 2015 8:26 pm

Taylor Stevenson wrote:

After looking at that link, I've come to the conclusion that the names of American museums need more artistic flair...

"The Smithsonian Institute of the Glorious Satisfaction of Manifest Destiny" etc.

I 2nd the motion...

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