The Chance Vought F4U Corsair was an American fighter aircraft that saw service in World War II and the Korean War (and in isolated local conflicts). Goodyear-built Corsairs were designated FG and Brewster-built aircraft F3A. The Corsair served in some air forces until the 1960s, following the longest production run of any piston-engine fighter in U.S. history (1942--1952) During World War II, it was the fighter the Japanese feared the most] The U.S. Navy counted an kill ratio for every F4U shot down.

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1945. Unedited US Marine Corps Combat Camera Unit raw footage.
Marines' dramatic attack on Japanese foxholes and bunkers with bazookas and tanks equipped with powerful flame throwers.
Music score (Demo Only) added in 2008 by ROMANO-ARCHIVES. (Traditional Japanese meditation music).

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A US Marine has been arrested on suspicion of raping a 14-year-old Japanese schoolgirl in Okinawa, where resentment is already running high against American military presence, Reuters reports. The 38-year-old Marine allegedly raped the teen in a car yesterday, officials said. "This kind of crime cannot be forgiven, especially when you remember that the victim is a middle school student," said Okinawa's governor. "I feel extremely angry."

The marine has admitted kissing the girl, but has denied the rape, according to local Japanese press reports. "If the allegations are true, our hearts are with the victim and family," said the commander of US forces in Japan. The nation is home to some 50,000 US troops, the bulk of them in Okinawa. The rape of a 12-year-old girl by three US servicemen on the island in 1995 sparked huge protests.

The US military ordered 45,000 American troops, civilian employees and their families in Japan restricted to their military bases, homes and workplaces in a move to quell growing Japanese outrage directed at problem Marines. The orders effectively bared Marines nationwide and all military personnel on Okinawa from visiting local restaurants and nightclubs.

The furor among Japanese citizens was triggered by the recent arrest in Okinawa of a Marine suspected of raping a 14-year-old girl. The US military subsequently arrested two other Marines for rape in a separate case. "The intent is not to just inconvenience people," said a US military spokesman. "Hopefully, people will realize, 'Get it, and we will behave.'"

United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met with the prime minister of Japan and other top officials where she expressed regret for the ALLEGED rape of a 14-year-old girl by a US Marine stationed on Okinawa. "We just regret deeply that it happened," said Rice, who added that she hopes the "long-standing and strong alliance" between the world's two richest countries would not be damaged.

So far, nearly every modern military idea has a German WW2 antecedant.

http://www.combatreform.com/fries.htm

Meaning usually the Germans--not Americans--thought of it first. The M113 Gavin fully enclosed, air-transportable, amphibious, tracked APC was truly an American first. The fixed-wing airplane by the Wright Brothers was an USA first. "First" is certainly not the province of the moronic USMC who brag that they don't think and whine that they don't have money when Congress pours billions into their Oprah Winfrey-style victim racket. They copied shallow-draft landing craft from the Japanese. Civilian Donald Roebeling came up with the open-top, amphibious tractor (AMTRACK). So much for gyrene innovation. A Polish Lieutenant created the first military VTOL helicopter for static observation in WW1. The Germans were the first to field moving combat VTOL helicopters, followed by the U.S. Army in WW2. The USMC didn't even get involved until their packing gyrenes-in-vulnerable-surface-ships racket got threatened after folks began putting 2+2 after pondering the nuclear bombs dropped on Japan in WW2 and later nuclear bomb tests against clusterfucks of surface ships. And even then it was the U.S. Army to develop a coherent air mobility force structure using helicopter troop ships, gunships and scout aircraft with the 11th Air Assault Testbed Division in the 1960s. The U.S. Army had to create the helicopter gunship and escort marine "slick" troop transports in Vietnam so they wouldn't get shot up in flames.

http://www.geocities.com/airbornemuseum/sld026.htm

Helicopters do NOT make surface ships packed with men less vulnerable and during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis Soviet submarines were one push-button away from incinerating thousands of marines and Sailors with nuclear torpedoes.

LTG Gavin in 1958 warned that in the guided missile age American amphibious forces had better go underwater with submarines

http://www.combatreform.com/submarineaircraftcarriers.htm

or else they will be incinerated:

http://www.combatreform.com/warandpeaceinthespaceage.htm

The only surface ships that can survive in the guided missile age we live in are ones over 10, 000 tons--30, 000 tons+ heavy cruisers and 40, 000+ battleships that can actually absorb some missile strikes. If the USMC wanted to put their money where their baraggadocio mouths are, they'd cough up 4, 000 man slots from their bureaucratic foot-slogger victim empire to man two Iowa class battleships to deliver an armored amphibious landing force that could actually not get sunk so it can deliver men alive across-the-beach:

http://www.combatreform.com/battleships.htm

The V-22 is the latest manifestation of the prop-up-the-surface-ship-sardines-Iwo Jima-with-VTOL-helicopters-lie and even looks like a German FA-223 when in hover mode except the latter has real large rotors so vortex ringstate doesn't cause a lift imbalance; a fatal V-22 flaw of its too small rotors that cannot be solved.
YOUTUBE member Grommo writes:

"I found some more awesome German chopper footage here:

http://helicopter-history.org/focke223.html

Have a look at the Fa 223 airlifting a full Fieseler Storch [STOL fixed-wing observation aircraft] off the ground. Must be 1944. They are also recovering a downed Fw190 and airlifting a Kübelwagon! [unarmored scout car] Amazing stuff.

There's some footage of a captured Fl 282 in U.S. markings flying backwards and even hands off at low altitude."

Thanks to Grommo, we can see the Germans who were the first to air-mech tracked assault guns into North Africa in 1942 by their Me-323 Gigants were already thinking about using helicopters to air-mech ground vehicles!

http://www.combatreform.com/aircraftphotos.htm

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