Navy will honor the Jolly Rogers aviation unit with a themed uniform ... with their first airborne craft coming in January 1943 on the F4U Corsairs assigned to VF-17 in World War II.

The squadron used the skull and crossbones insignia, in part because they flew F4U-1 Corsairs and corsair is an old nautical term for pirate. By the end of World War II, the “Jolly Rogers ...