Shipped from USA on 19 April 1944 aboard "USS Breton".
Assembled in Espiritu Santo and BOC Unit 60 on 05 May 1944.
Issued to No.15 Fighter Squadron, Guadalcanal on 18 May 1944.
Coded "77". With ''Irate Donald Duck" Motif.
To No.14 Squadron on 08 August 1944.
Badly damaged in taxying accident with NZ5275 at Kukum Field on 17 August 1944 but repaired and returned to service.
To No.16 Squadron on 21 December 1944.
To No.21 Squadron by April 1945.
Damaged on 24 July 1945 but repaired and returned to service by September.
Ferried to New Zealand in October 1945.
Advertised for sale by WARB tender number 1704 and sold from Rukuhia to J. Larsen, Palmerston North on 02 March 1948.. Info from adf-serials team
Unzip "NZ5277 No.21 Squadron PACK" and place skin in Eagle Dynamics\DCS World\CoreMods\aircraft\F4U-1D\Liveries\F4U-1D_CW
This aircraft is often depicted with full Mission and Kill Markings in yellow on the Port side
of the fuselage but these have been disputed as The Aircraft did have mission markings (being the Red tipped Bombs) ahead of the Angry Duck
BUT the Truck and Ship Kills are fictitious, these are said to be just marks made whilst stored at the Rukuhia
Boneyard,NZ after the war. I have included an Alternative Front fuselage so as to cover both options.
Make a copy of the 1001.dds in the main Aircraft folder and save it then Open yellow folder marked Fuselage 1001 #2 then copy and paste into
main Aircraft folder.
