This page from a personal wartime photo album pairs an image of a Vought F4U Corsair fighter at Marine Corps Air Station Santa Barbara, captioned to Marine Fighting Squadron 112 (VMF-112) circa 1943-1944, with a portrait of two young Marine aviators, one identified by hand as 'McAlister,' noted as having been killed at Santa Barbara in 1943. Together the photographs and their handwritten annotations offer a personal, firsthand record of stateside Marine Corps fighter training in the Corsair and the very real hazards, including fatal accidents, that accompanied wartime flight instruction before squadrons deployed to the Pacific. Project: 218187