F4U-4 in action in Okinawa, 1945

[Ferreira]

Hi, Frank

I don't have this book.

Barrett Tillman's Vought F4U Corsair (Warbirdtech Series) list three squadrons:

VMF-212 - 36 F4U-4 Awase, Okinawa
VMF-222 - 32 F4U-4 Anase, Okinawa
VMF-223 - 31 F4U-4 Awase, Okinawa

I'm searching especially photos of F4U-4 Corsairs used of marines, in Okinawa, june 1945.

I found only two photos of F4U-4 of VMF-212 and VMF-223, in the book F4U Corsair in Color - Fighting Colors (Squadron/Signal Publications), p. 25, by Jim Sullivan.

Cheers,
Franklin

[R Leonard]

Could not begin to tell you which squadron was flying what aircraft without dragging out a bunch of books and such, but a list, distilled from data in Sherrod, of VMF and VMF(N) squadrons operating out of Okinawa and Ie Shima in the period April though June 1945 looks like:

VMF-113
VMF-212
VMF-222
VMF-223
VMF-224
VMF-311
VMF-312
VMF-314
VMF-322
VMF-323
VMF-422
VMF-422
VMF-441
VMF(N)-533
VMF(N)-542
and
VMF(N)-543

Rich