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On 13 February 1943, Marine Fighting Squadron 124 flew the first Corsair combat mission from Henderson Field on Guadalcanal, escorting Navy PB4Y-1 Liberators on a bombing run against Bougainville. The Navy had rejected the F4U for carrier use after it failed deck-landing trials, so the Marines took it to the Solomons as a land-based fighter. Its inverted gull wing was drawn around the biggest engine available, and by the end of the war the Corsair had an 11 to 1 kill-to-loss ratio over Japanese aircraft. The chest is the first Marine F4U-1 on Guadalcanal, from a Navy photograph of 13 February 1943, printed as a two-ink halftone.Heavyweight tee, from thirty-four dollars.Garment-dyed heavyweight 100% ring-spun cotton, relaxed unisex fit, made to order and shipped from the US. Printed in cream and orange on a dark tee. Every fact and the source photograph are listed below.Sources Naval History Magazine (USNI), "The Versatile and Long-Lived Corsair," August 2000 Photo of the first VMF-124 F4U-1 on Guadalcanal, 13 Feb 1943 (National Museum of Naval Aviation 1996.253.7152.008, public domain)

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