Well established facts, yes, but warts and all, they still gave good sterling Offensive Defensive service - the FAA didn't get into the US aircraft until later, mostly ex-US Corsairs, as the Hellcats were much more easier to handle on carriers. They didn't have a long nose, so the Marine Corsairs flew off to airfields and continued from there...Seafires might not have been the bees-knees ON carriers, but off them they could scrap...they were afterall 'Spitfires in the Navy,' and their range wasn't the greatest, but that's how the Empire accomodated a shortfall, wasn't it ...? Incidentally, it was a British idea to create the angled-flightdeck, although they themselves took some convincing; - Abit like the Mosquito when still on the drawing-board; - until they saw it fly...then they were convinced....