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The Corsair and Hellcats got mega kamikaze kills where the pilots did no evasive maneuvers.
You might find this interesting on the subject of defense against the Kamikazes. The link goes to the Defense Technical Information Center and calls "Defense Against Kamikaze Attacks in World War II and its Relevance To Anti-Ship Missile Defense; Volume I - An Analytical History of Kamikaze Attacks Against Ships of the United States Navy during World War II" by Nicolai Timenes, Jr. A PDF of about 114 pages.
https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/725163.pdf
Thank you for the link, it looks interesting. I'll have to take a closer look at it.
Well I had a look at the report and on page 73 I found what I think explains fairly well the estimated number of Kamikaze aircraft brought down by fighters flying the CAP mission:
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So after careful analysis of both Japanese and allied sources it was estimated that 1,118 kamikaze planes were most likely destroyed in the air by US Navy and Marine Corps fighters during the Philippine and Okinawa campaigns (which include both mass attacks and those of modest size, plus additional sorties flown from Formosa). This number isn't far off the estimate I gave in my earlier post (1,345 suicide airplanes claimed by F6F and F4U pilots). The report only considers those aircraft which left base and were on their way to attack US Navy ships and not those destroyed on the ground during fighter sweeps:
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The data isn't broken down to individual fighter types (F6F, F4U, or FM-2) so determining how many were attributed to each type is problematic to say the least. But seeing that the F6F was the primary fleet fighter throughout the Kamikaze campaigns it would be a safe bet to assume they got the lion's share of these victories (up to two-thirds).
I believe this has been argued before on this forum, but my take is that Bowman's book "Vought F4U Corsair" has the VF-17 (USN) in combat off carriers in Nov 1943 (p39) and 10 Corsairs from 1830 Sqn were lifted on and (after the Atlantic crossing) were then flown off carrier HMS Slinger in Oct 1943. (Vintage Wings website)Oh, and the USN was operating F4Us in combat off carriers BEFORE the RN first deployed them on carriers. Most of the "RN was first to do XYZ with F4Us" fables are demonstrably nonsense.