 The Marines used a few of their planes to form an aerial formation-flight demonstration team, dubbed "The Flying Leathernecks" (which was also the title of a 1951 film starring John Wayne, concerned with Marine aviation activity in World War II).Three flag officers in the Navy, Admiral Daniel V. Gallery and Rear Admirals Apollo Soucek and Edgar A.Cruise, checked themselves out in the Phantom and made fly-by appearances at the inauguration ceremony of New York City's Idlewild Airport and the 1948 Cleveland Air Races.