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found this whilst trying to track down info on JATO equipped Corsairs..

Yes, JATO was used but not much or often it seems. The reason I was looking was that I saw a short movie advertisement on TV showing a Corsair BLASTING off the flight deck and ALL of the filght deck hands covering their ears as it went by. Not much info about JATO at the site but a LOT of info about Corsairs and variants.

http://www.vectorsite.net/avf4u.html

There's a tiny clip of a Corsair JATO carrier take-off about a minute and a half into the following film:

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(Uh, go to http://www.ww2incolor.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; and then 'Image Gallery'. You'll find a section called 'ww2 movies in color' at the bottom. Download the film 'To the shores of Iwo Jima' for the JATO bit, and check the rest out as they're superb - especially the P-47 one!)

Check out the root site, WW2 in color - I think it's been posted here before but in case anyone missed it, it's an incredible repository of full colour (or 'color' ) photos and films from, you guessed it, WW2.

Willie, did you ever hear about that Darwin Award winner, a former Air Force officer, who 'comandeered' a JATO rocket and strapped it onto his car out on a long stretch of road in Death Valley? His car actually took off before crashing into a cliff face 100ft up!

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