Warbird Information Exchange

yeah, ed mcmahon was a corsair pilot. Something else i never knew was that Clint Eastwood crashed,( in a a-20 or a a-26 maybe,) in the ocean while on leave and had to swim 3 miles to shore with the pilot. I could be wrong on the plane.....but it was a douglas

In October 1951, Eastwood was aboard a Douglas AD-1 military aircraft that crashed into the Pacific Ocean north of San Francisco's Drake's Bay. The aircraft had departed from Seattle, bound for Mather Air Force Base at Sacramento. When the intercommunications system failed, the aircraft was forced to ditch in the sea two miles off Point Reyes. Eastwood escaped serious injury, and using an inflatable raft, he swam to shore. The crash was headline news on October 1, 1951 in the San Francisco Chronicle.[16] He later reflected on his thoughts during the crash, "I thought I might die. But then I thought, Other people have made it through these things before. I kept my eyes on the lights on shore and kept swimming."[14] Eastwood testified at an investigating hearing, and this kept him from going to Korea with the rest of his unit.[17][18] During his military service, Eastwood became friends with future actors Martin Milner and David Janssen.