On June 12, 1943, the F4U-1 Corsair fighter crashed into the lake near Waukegan during practice landings and takeoffs from the USS Wolverine. The pilot, Carl Harold Johnson, survived the crash but was ...
The Vought F4U Corsair was built to dominate the skies of World War II, but instead earned a deadly reputation among its own pilots. This story follows American naval aviators, Marine pilots, and ...