It was my understanding that the Corsair was not an ideal aircraft for
carrier ops because of the limited forward visibility and most were
transferred over the Marines.

As a Marine I shouldn't repeat this, but just to show you how
fair-minded we Marines a

In _The Jolly Rogers_, Tom Blackburn, skipper of VF-17 during WW II,
tells how he insisted on getting F4Us, not F6Fs, for his squadron. It
became, IIRC, the highest-scoring USN squadron.

On one long flight, they had to land on a carrier ro refuel. Although
they hadn't done carrier ops for more than a year, every one of them
got a cut on the first pass.

So there were some pretty good F4U drivers in the Navy, too.

..... The Fleet Air Arm took on Corsairs as soon as it could get them and very
quickly evolved a curving approach to the deck which meant that forward visibility
was not a problem for landing ....

The USN was still using that approach when I CQed in 1950 and, AFAIK,
continued using it till the jets and the "ball" arrived.

vince norris