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F4F Wildcat part 1 photo gallery. Click on thumbnail images to enlarge. F4F-3 of VF-6 leads a pack of aircraft readying for launch from the carrier USS Enterprise in May 1942. Wildcat ditched and pilot Lt Julius Brownstein will be rescued in North Atlantic 1943.
The Grumman F4F Wildcat is an American carrier-based fighter aircraft that entered service in 1940 with the United States Navy, and the British Royal Navy where it was initially known as the Martlet. [2]
Browse 18 grumman f4f wildcat photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more photos and images. St Paul, Minnesota, Holman Field, Formation of Grumman WWII Fighters, F4f Wildcat, F6F Hellcat, F8F Bearcat at Commemorative Air Force Air Show.
20 wrz 2003 · Album Like Share. Note: Nikon D-100 1/320 sec. F/9 Painted and marked as the F4F-3 Wildcat flown by L.t. Edward "Butch" O'Hare of VF-3 on Feb 20, 1942, when he shot down 5 Japanese Betty torpedo bombere attacking his ship, the U.S.S. Lexington. Airline: Grumman Aerospace.
F4F Wildcat part 2 photo gallery. Click on thumbnail images to enlarge. Lieutenant “Swede” Vejtasa smiles from the cockpit of his Wildcat June 22, 1943. FM-2 preparing for launch on board USS Matanikau CVE-101, 27 July 1944.
* The Grumman F4F Wildcat was a stubby, tough little carrier-based naval fighter that not only helped save the day for the US Navy in the difficult early days of World War II, but gave outstanding service through the rest of the war with the navies of both America and Britain.
Grumman F4F Wildcat. Grumman XF4F-3. (Photo: First flown in 1939, the F4F-3 Wildcat was Grumman's first monoplane fighter. Originally designed as a biplane, as a follow-up to the F3F-2 biplane fighter, the XF4F (G-16) was turned down by the Navy in favor of Brewster's F2A-1 Brewster Buffalo, the Navy's first monoplane fighter.
