Thick black smoke marks the scene of an aircraft fire beside the runway at a Pacific island airfield, its inverted-gull wing identifying the burning aircraft as a Vought F4U Corsair. Accidents and fires on the flight line were an ever-present hazard at forward airfields such as Agana, Guam, where Naval Air Transport Squadron VR-6 and other units operated during and after World War II. Project: 218213