North Korea F4U-4 Corsair

[shuck]

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]

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]

Thanks for the photo link

[Adam Kline]

Very interesting stuff.

[Chris Brame]

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:

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]

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]

That's funny

[jack973]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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...