{"id":87584,"date":"2024-07-16T07:00:11","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T21:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/forgotten-ww2-plane-us-navy-o3u-3-corsair\/"},"modified":"2024-07-16T07:00:11","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T21:00:11","slug":"forgotten-ww2-plane-the-us-navys-vought-o2u-o3u-3-corsair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=87584","title":{"rendered":"Forgotten WW2 Plane: The US Navy&#8217;s Vought O2U\/O3U-3 Corsair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    Many military aviation buffs are familiar with two Corsair planes of US Naval Aviation: the Vought <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3pvzA6-tSqE\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" >F4U Corsair <\/a>fighter plane that ravaged Imperial Japanese aviation during World War II, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2023\/05\/meet-the-a-7-corsair-ii-a-real-warrior-in-the-sky\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" >LTV A-7 Corsair II<\/a> ground-attack plane (AKA the &#8220;SLUF;&#8221; &#8220;Short Little Ugly Fellow&#8221; in polite company) that served faithfully from <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/5-military-aircraft-that-defined-the-vietnam-war\/\">the Vietnam War<\/a> to the 1991 Persian Gulf War.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many history buffs remember the Vought F4U Corsair and LTV A-7 Corsair II, but what about the Vought O3U-3 Corsair?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,408,412,11533,708,5024],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-history","category-military","category-naval-aviation","category-us-navy","category-world-war-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87585,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87584\/revisions\/87585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}