I have a photo on my wall from Breckenridge ’94 where three Wildcats are flying together (Weeks, Pardue’s and Cavanaugh’s ) and the Cavanaugh ‘Cat is carrying rockets, so I would assume they adorned it this way because the Wildcat could carry rockets….only stubs for 3, though….The Corsair first showed up in Feb. 1943 at ‘Cactus’ (Guadalcanal) to start replacing the Wildcats there (or supplement them) and both planes were basically painted the same, light bluish/grey above and almost white below, with variations….then Corsairs started arriving from the factory in the Tri-color paint scheme in late ’43, later progressing (around 1944) to the overall glossy sea blue that it wore while flying from carriers…
Funny….I picked up this movie at the video store and looked it over the other day, there were several of them all clumped together in the same area (Top Gun, Flight of the Intruder, Tora Tora, and Flying Leathernecks), thought about getting it but passed…for now. Do enjoy the flick, like John Wayne, but want to get a few others before I start picking up older flicks from the 40’s and 50’s….never thought much of Flying Tigers, the dialogue was corny (“Ok, whatever you say, Pappy!”) and the flying scenes were crud, as were the made up P-40’s on the ground, but I guess the film served it’s purpose back when…
Mark
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