According to the Intrepid Museum, the aircraft was designed as a carrier fighter-bomber and was essential to the U.S. Navy's success in World War II.
This is one of our biggest acquisitions. We've been wanting this for at least my entire tenure here, which is over 20 years. It's the quintessential World War II aircraft, probably the most common that flew off the Intrepid, President of the Intrepid Museum Susan Marenoff-Zausner said.
The Corsairs were primarily used in the Pacific campaign as American forces island-hopped while beating back Japanese forces in the wake of the Pearl Harbor attack of Dec. 7, 1941.
We will be restoring this for about six months in our aircraft restoration hangar.
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