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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]
[22] [23] F4F FM-2, tail number N18P, from the Cavanaugh Flight Museum, at the Alliance Air Show in Ft. Worth, Texas. F4F-3 Wildcat Bu12297 recovered from Lake Michigan on display at the Cradle of Aviation Museum. 86680 - based at Collings Foundation in Stow, Massachusetts. [24] [25] unique in having a passenger cabin. It is shown to be able to ...
In its early years it flew the Vought RF-8A Crusader and Douglas EF-10B Skyknight but these were later replaced by the McDonnell-Douglas RF-4B Phantom II and the Grumman EA-6A Electric Intruder. The squadron was decommissioned following the end of the Vietnam War and the reorganization of the Marine Corps' composite community in 1975.
Today four MoH combat aircraft still exist, plus two non-combat aircraft and the parts of one MoH Grumman F4F Wildcat. One near-survivor was Fairchild C-123 Provider (55-4542), the aircraft MoH recipient Maj. Joe Jackson was piloting when he made his daring rescue of Air Force personnel trapped on an airstrip being overrun by Communist forces ...
VF-41 F4F-4s testing their guns on USS Ranger prior to Operation Torch in November 1942 VF-4 F6Fs c.1945. During World War II, VF-41 deployed on USS Ranger supported the Allied invasion of Northwest Africa, downing 14 Vichy French aircraft in the Grumman F4F-3 Wildcat on 8/9 November 1942. [2] The squadron lost 7 F4Fs in action over the same ...
English: A U.S. Navy Grumman F4F-3 Wildcat in flight, in February 1942. The plane appears to be BuNo 3987. It was assigned to Fighting Squadron 2 (VF-2) and was lost with the carrier on 8 May 1942. In February 1942, VF-2 operated out of Oahu, Hawaii.
Grumman F4F Wildcat, a carrier-based fighter aircraft in World War 2; Vought F4U Corsair, a World War 2 fighter; Douglas F4D Skyray, a carrier-based fighter/interceptor, first flight 1951; McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II, a supersonic fighter-bomber, first flight 1958
On 25 December 1940, two of the squadron ' s Martlets shot down a Junkers Ju 88 off Scapa Flow, thus scoring the first aerial victory in Europe by any variant of the Grumman F4F Wildcat. [3] Further re-equipping occurred in February 1941 at RNAS Yeovilton with Fulmar IIs and Sea Hurricanes. [2]