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20-494: Vought Corsair is the name of several former aircraft of the US Navy: Vought O2U Corsair , a biplane scout and observation aircraft Vought O4U Corsair , a biplane scout and observation aircraft prototype Vought SBU Corsair , a biplane dive bomber aircraft Vought F4U Corsair , a monoplane shipborne fighter/dive bomber aircraft LTV A-7 Corsair II ,

40-669: A motorised transport column, its rate of advance was limited by the poor roads. By the time they reached the Shanxi border, Lin Biao's 115th Division, after a forced march from Shaanxi , was in place at Pingxingguan on 24 September to ambush the Japanese army. The pass of Pingxingguan was a narrow defile worn through the loess, with no exit for several kilometres except the road itself. Lin's division were able to ambush two columns of mainly transportation and supply units and virtually annihilate

60-518: A series of easy victories against their opponents, they failed to take elementary precautions. Japanese commanders seldom repeated the operational blunders that had led to Pingxingguan. Nonetheless, the battle gave the Chinese a major boost in morale and credence to the Communists in the eyes of the people. The battle was constantly cited by CPC leaders as an example of their commitment to battling

80-489: A single-seat light jet attack aircraft Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Vought Corsair . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vought_Corsair&oldid=1145128992 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

100-486: A tremendous boost since it was the only division-size battle that they fought during the entire war. After the capture of Beiping (present Beijing) at the end of July 1937, Japanese forces advanced along the Beijing–Baotou railway to Inner Mongolia . Having anticipated the move, Chiang Kai-shek had appointed the Shanxi warlord Yan Xishan as Pacification Director of Taiyuan. Theoretically Yan had authority over all

120-472: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Vought O2U Corsair Two prototypes were ordered in 1926 and tested by the Navy Trial Board before the first production batches were ordered. In 1927, a total of 291 O2Us were produced. The O2U-2 , -3 and -4 were ordered in 1928 with minor changes. By 1930 they were being superseded by

140-948: The Battle of Ko Chang against the French Navy . The most famous "combat" operation of this aircraft was shooting the original King Kong off of the Empire State Building . The name "Corsair" was used several times by Vought's planes; the O2U, Vought SBU Corsair in 1933, F4U in 1938, and the A-7 Corsair II in 1963. Data from The Complete Encyclopedia of World Aircraft General characteristics Performance Armament Battle of Pingxingguan [REDACTED] National Revolutionary Army Taishō period Shōwa period The Battle of Pingxingguan ( Chinese : 平型關戰役 ), commonly called

160-647: The Central Plains War and in the January 28 Incident against Japanese targets, while the O3U versions first participated in the Battle of Pingxingguan to support the Chinese ground forces, and later against the Japanese targets in Shanghai . Peru purchased two Vought OSUs which were designated UO-1A. Later, in 1929, 12 O2U-1 were acquired. Used first as trainers, they saw action against APRA rebels in

180-907: The Great Victory of Pingxingguan in Mainland China , was an engagement fought on 25 September 1937, at the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War , between the Eighth Route Army of the Chinese Communist Party and the Imperial Japanese Army . The battle resulted in the loss of 400 to 600 soldiers on both sides, but the Chinese captured 100 trucks full of supplies. The victory gave the Chinese Communists

200-764: The O3U which was basically similar to the O2U-4 , one variant of which was fitted with the Grumman float , and were manufactured until 1936. A total of 289 were built. Many of them had cowled engines and some had enclosed cockpits . The 600-690 hp (448-515 kW) Pratt & Whitney R-1690-42 Hornet engine was used to power Corsairs designated SU-1 to SU-4 . The change in designation reflected their role as scouts (their larger engines and heavier weight precluded their use as floatplanes, and USN examples were only used on wheels from either carrier decks or land bases). A total of 289 SU designated aircraft were built for

220-409: The 3rd Battalion of the 21st Regiment was rebuffed by Chinese troops and suffered almost 100 casualties. Lin Biao's troops eventually withdrew from the battlefield, allowing the Japanese to finally reach the site of the ambush on 28 September. The Nationalist Air Force of China provided some close-air support for the Chinese ground forces in course of the battles at Pingxingguan. Japanese casualties in

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240-577: The 400 hp (300 kW) Wasp engine to quell a military coup; Mexico then built 31 more units under licence, and called them Corsarios Azcárate O2U-4A . In 1937, Mexico purchased 10 V-99M equipped with the Pratt & Whitney R-1340-T1H-1 550 hp Wasp engine, some of them may have been sent to Spain . China purchased the 42 export versions of O2U-1 from 1929 to 1933, and 21 export versions of O3U between 1933 and 1934 and they saw extensive bombing actions. The O2U-1 versions participated in

260-629: The Chinese military forces in his theatre of operations, including Lin Biao 's 115th Division of the Communist 8th Route Army, Liu Ruming 's ex- Kuomintang troops and various Central Army contingents responsible to Chiang Kai-shek. In reality these forces operated independently from Yan's provincial army. Japanese forces, mainly the 5th Division and 11th Independent Mixed Brigade, moved out from Beiping and advanced on Huailai County in Chahar . A Japanese column advanced quickly into Shanxi, making use of

280-945: The USN. No fewer than 141 Corsairs were still serving with the US Navy and Marines when the US entered World War II. Export versions included the Corsair V-65F , V-66F and V-80F for the Argentine Navy, the V-80P for the Peruvian Air Force, and the V-85G for Germany . China purchased Corsair variants V-65C and V-92C . Brazil purchased 36 aircraft V-65B , some hydroplanes V-66B and 15 V-65F . In March 1929, Mexico purchased 12 armed aircraft O2U-2M versions with

300-408: The battle have been estimated at 400 to 500 and the Chinese at about 400. The Chinese forces destroyed about 70 trucks and an equal number of horse-drawn carts and captured 100 rifles, 10 light machine guns, 1 gun and 2,000 shells as well as some clothing and food. The Kuomintang's official history of the Second Sino-Japanese War deals with it in a sentence, without any credit to the Communists. On

320-655: The northern areas of the country, and against Colombian ships and aircraft during the Colombia-Peru War . None were lost due to enemy fire, but several were destroyed due to accidents. These aircraft were also used for light bombing and casualty evacuation by the US Marine Corps during the intervention in Nicaragua in the late 1920s. Thailand used their Corsairs in the Franco-Thai War and in

340-430: The other hand, the Communists' accounts describe Pingxingguan as a typical example of Red guerrilla tactics , inspired by Mao Zedong 's conceptualization of people's war . Japanese losses were greatly exaggerated for propaganda purposes. However, like the victory at the Battle of Taierzhuang , Pingxingguan was explained by Japan as Japanese officers succumbing to what they came to call " victory disease ." After

360-517: The railway which the Chinese did not attempt to destroy. The Chinese abandoned Datong on 13 September, falling back to a line from Yanmen Pass on the Great Wall east to the mountain pass of Pingxingguan . Yan Xishan's troops became more demoralised as the Japanese exerted their air supremacy. The main body of the Japanese 5th Division, under the command of Itagaki Seishiro , advanced from Huaili to invade northeastern Shanxi . Although it had

380-428: The supply column passed into a defile with the two sides rising up more than 10 metres; they were heading towards Caijiayu about 3 km away. At the same time, a motorized column of Japanese supply troops in about 80 trucks left Guangou and headed east. Both of these non-combat formations entered into the ambush set by the 115th division after 10 a.m. on the 25th and were largely wiped out. A relief force consisting of

400-411: The trapped Japanese forces. On 25 September, the 21st brigade of the Japanese 5th Division stationed at Lingqiu received a request from the 21st Regiment that they urgently needed supplies due to falling temperature. The supply troops of the 21st Regiment set out with 70 horse-drawn vehicles with 50 horses, filled with clothes, food, ammunition and proceeded westwards towards Pingxingguan. Around 10:00,

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