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kenlyco · **Joined:** Sat Dec 08, 2007 11:05 pm **Posts:** 656

SHE LOOKS LIKE SHE TOOK A BEATING, BUT I BET SHE KICKED BUTTT..

gary1954 · **Posted:** Thu Oct 23, 2008 11:08 am

the vegie-tation appears to be that of the South, Pensacola perhaps?

Jerry O'Neill · **Posted:** Thu Oct 23, 2008 11:51 am

Looks like care has been taken to protect this bird from the weather for a period of time.
Could this be a Pensecola museum bird in storage?
Jerry

kenlyco · **Joined:** Sat Dec 08, 2007 11:05 pm **Posts:** 656

Yes Jerry, thats it.

Rob Mears · **Posted:** Thu Oct 23, 2008 12:34 pm

Amazing photo!! That's F4U-5N, BuNo.122189, now at the Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum at MCAS Miramar in California.

She actually did kick butt, specifically North Korean butt while serving with VC-3 squadron aboard the USS Essex ( June 1, 1952 - February 9, 1953).

Was there a date associated with this photo?

kenlyco · **Joined:** Sat Dec 08, 2007 11:05 pm **Posts:** 656

Is this it in KOREA?

Rob Mears · **Posted:** Thu Oct 23, 2008 1:35 pm

That's the plane while at NAS Whiting Field (c1975) after the Navy traded it to the USMC Museum in exchange for an FG-1D. The Marine Corps engineers tore the plane down, refurbished it, and actually flew it out of there a year or so later to MCAS Cherry Point in North Carolina.

jdvoss · **Posted:** Thu Oct 23, 2008 1:40 pm

Given the fact that there are numerous T-28's on the ramp it is no doubt a stateside photo...most likely at a Florida or Texas training field. As the T-28's are sporting a red and white paint scheme (introduced in the late '50s) I would estimate the photo to have been taken no earlier than about 1959.

Jack Cook · **Posted:** Sat Oct 25, 2008 10:41 pm

The photo gone by sounds like the F4U-5 at Whiting I posted a long time back and send to Rob (?) for his book. It was at Whiting North when my step-dad was flying T-28s there.

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