Corsair.

This is coolbert:

From the prior blog entry: "Johannes Steinhoff did fly a captured P-51 during the war but would not have and never did encounter a F4U Corsair in the ETO!"

I am wrong and openly admit so without qualification or reservation. And proudly do so.

See from the wiki and extracted in entirety "Captured Corsairs".

"On 18 July 1944, a British Corsair F4U-1A, JT404 of 1841 Naval Air Squadron, was involved in anti-submarine patrol from HMS Formidable en route to Scapa Flow after the Operation Mascot attack on the German battleship Tirpitz. It flew in company with a Fairey Barracuda. Due to technical problems the Corsair made an emergency landing in a field on Hamarøy north of Bodø, Norway. The pilot, Lt Mattholie, was taken prisoner and the aircraft captured undamaged. Luftwaffe interrogators failed to get the pilot to explain how to fold the wings so as to transport the aircraft to Narvik. The Corsair was ferried by boat for further investigation. Later the Corsair was taken to Germany and listed as one of the captured enemy aircraft (Beuteflugzeug) based at Erprobungsstelle Rechlin, the central German military aviation test facility and the equivalent of the Royal Aircraft Establishment, for 1944 under repair. This was probably the only Corsair captured by the Germans."

Indeed! Johannes Steinhoff COULD have had the opportunity to fly an intact Corsair F4U as captured from the Royal Navy [RN] air arm. Formidable carrying a variety of American carrier-borne fighter warplanes from 1942 forward during that period of WW2.

My perspective was that the Corsair ONLY was flown in the Pacific theater of operations as a naval or Marine asset. Again, I am wrong and freely concede so. And everyone is the better for it too.

coolbert.