Devotion on Paramount Plus

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

A touching true story that is well worth a watch. Note that there is more character development and story building in this than being a "war movie."

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1. Looks like a FG-1D Corsair, the Navy's gull wing, prop-driven fighter.

There was a brief mention of a Mig-15 jet fighter the North Koreans had (mostly piloted by Russians). It took considerable skill for a much slower prop plane to go against much faster jet fighters. I guess the Black aviators weren't given the new F-86 Sabrejet yet (the Navy version was the FJ-4 Fury).

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

2. From what I read the FJ-4 Fury first flight was in 1954 while the time of this movie

was 1950 if I recall correctly. There is a dogfight between a MIG and a corsair in the film though.

My father was a Marine during the Korean war and raved about the Corsair's maneuverability and speed and built several gas powered models of them so it was a treat to see them so prevalent in this film.

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3. The Corsair was a beautiful plane. I thought the Navy version of...

the F-86 debut close to the same time as the Air Forces' did. On further research I found that it was the FJ-2 and FJ-3 that the Navy got during the Korean war.

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4. The book author is still trying to get Jesse's remains recovered. Nice article link below:

https://www.rfa.org/english/news/korea/northkorea-pilot-remains-12042022085314.html

Mission: Return to North Korea to retrieve remains of US Navy’s first Black aviator
“Devotion” recounts story of sacrifice and friendship

Article above is from last December.