This film receives an honorable mention on this list as the only time Corsairs actually appear on screen is when a kamikaze Hayabusa slams into an aircraft carrier.
While both films were considered financial failures, as their gross receipts fell short of their production costs, they did receive considerable critical acclaim.įor Those We Love (2007): This powerfully emotional Japanese film documents the psychological toll which pilots in one of Imperial Japan’s “special attack units” experienced, and the consequential strain it had on their families too. In the latter film, there is a scene featuring a squadron of Corsairs attacking a Japanese encampment. First-person point-of-view attacks on Mount Suribachi are also depicted.
In the former, CGI Corsairs make deck-level fly-bys of the American convoy heading towards Iwo and later they are seen providing close-air support for Marines storming the island’s beaches. They tell the story of the Battle of Iwo Jima from the American and Japanese perspectives respectively. Well, in a scene which is reminiscent of the Playboy Bunnies sequence in the 1979 film Apocalypse Now or Cher’s video “If I Could Turn Back Time” shot aboard USS Missouri in 1989, a female officer emerges from the cockpit of what appears to be an F4U-5 and proceeds to…well…just Google it.įlags of Our Fathers & Letters from Iwo Jima (2006): Both of these movies were both directed and co-produced by Clint Eastwood. You may be wondering what a French Top Gun-style film featuring Mirage 2000s has to do with a Corsair. Sky Fighters (2005): This French film (titled Les Chevaliers du ciel in France) is about two air force pilots preventing a terrorist attack during the Bastille Day celebrations in Paris. Although the flying is exclusively CGI, it heavily features Corsairs conducting ground support and attack missions. It tells the story of two brothers who are forcibly drafted into the South Korean army at the outbreak of the Korean War. Taegukgi: Brotherhood of War (2004): This 2004 South Korean war film directed by Kang Je-gyu stars Jang Dong-gun and Won Bin. We especially salute the men and officers of the USS Princeton on whose ship many of the sequences were filmed.” Fittingly, the film premiered aboard Princeton in San Diego harbor on Armistice Day, 1952.
The film’s opening prologue states: “We desire to express grateful appreciation to the Department of the United States Navy for the cooperation which was extended on the production of this picture. A majority of the contemporary footage was shot aboard the Essex-class carrier USS Princeton, whose hull number (CVA 37, later CVA 37, CVS 37 and LPH 5) can be clearly seen. The latter included footage captured between October 23rd and 26th, 1944 during the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
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In his book “The Aircraft-Spotter’s Film and Television Companion”, Simon Beck wrote, “Grumman F6F-5 Hellcats of VMT-2 at MCAS El Toro and Vought F4U-4 Corsair fighters of VMF-232 were assigned employed for filming on location at MCAS Camp Pendleton from November 1950 and February 1951.”įlat Top (1952) Just as Baa Baa Black Sheep would a quarter century later, this movie employed actual newsreel and color aerial combat film. The Vought F4U Corsair was featured prominently in the last half of the film Smith was eventually promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, as was Wayne’s character in the film. John Wayne’s character, Major Daniel Xavier Kirby, was based upon Captain John Lucian Smith, the Medal of Honor recipient and 19-victory ace who commanded VMF-223 Bulldogs on Guadalcanal during in 1942.
Marine Corps fighter squadron, VMF-247 Wildcats, flying in the Battle of Guadalcanal. The Flying Leathernecks (1951): This classic war movie depicts a fictitious U.S. Whether actual aircraft featured or their CGI representations, each of these depictions pays homage to one of the greatest and longest-serving piston-engined combat aircraft in history. Some of these performances will be well known to most, while others were new even to this author. The forthcoming gathering of Corsairs at AirVenture 2023, prompted us to take a look back at the naval fighter’s film appearances on both the big and the small screen.
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