Hi just reading this thread with interest, my father flew FAA Corsairs in 1944/45,he did his fighter training on them based at Yeovilton then flew them out in India and remembers them being moved by elephant out there, still his favourite piston fighter out of all that he flew including the Sea Fury which he flew during Korea from HMS Ocean and HMS Vengence as well as from some of the shore bases. He says the Americans did have problems with them on the decks until the FAA altered the height of the tail wheel which the Americans then adopted
gordon