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The F6F-5 was the first aircraft used by the U.S. Navy's Blue Angels official flight demonstration team at its formation in 1946. [60] A F6F-5K Hellcat target drone is shot down by the heavy cruiser USS Saint Paul, in 1954. The French Naval Aviation was equipped with F6F-5 Hellcats and used them in combat in Indochina.
VF-1 F6F-3 launches from the hangar deck catapult of USS Yorktown in June 1943 VF-1 F6F-3 aboard USS Yorktown, June 1944. VF-1 operating the Grumman F6F Hellcat was embarked on the USS Yorktown (CV-10) on its shakedown cruise in the Caribbean in June 1943. VF-1 was transferred to Kaneohe Naval Air Station in August 1943. [2]
File: Burning Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat of VF-2 aboard USS Enterprise (CV-6) on 10 November 1943 (80-G-205473).jpg
McCampbell entered combat on May 14 [2] and flew at least four Grumman F6F Hellcats while aboard the Essex: an F6F-3 named Monsoon Maiden (damaged by AA, removed from service on 20 May 1944), an F6F-3 named The Minsi (10 + 1 ⁄ 2 kills), an F6F-5 named Minsi II, and an F6F-5 named Minsi III (Bureau Number 70143), in which he scored the last 23 ...
Another F6F Hellcat, flying CAP over Bataan, shot down a Japanese Army Nakajima Ki-49 Helen bomber. That evening, TG 58.1 sailed south toward Guam. That evening, TG 58.1 sailed south toward Guam. On 12 June, Bataan flew CAP and ASP over the task group while the three other carriers launched strikes at Orote air field on Guam.
Letters were occasionally appended after the design number to denote minor modifications to the subtype; e.g. adding 'N' to the Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat designated the radar-equipped night fighter version of that model: F6F-5N. The first suffix to be used was "C" for aircraft modified for launching from an aircraft catapult on a battleship.
VF-18: 38 F6F Hellcat fighters, 5 F6F-xN Hellcat night fighters VB-18: 28 SB2C Helldiver dive bombers VT-18: 18 TBM Avenger torpedo bombers Hancock (Capt. F.C. Dickey) Air Group 7 (Cmdr. J.D. Lamade) VF-7: 37 F6F Hellcat fighters, 4 F6F-xN Hellcat night fighters VB-7: 42 SB2C Helldiver dive bombers VT-7: 18 TBM Avenger torpedo bombers
This influenced the development of the Hellcat which was an improvement over the Grumman F4F Wildcat. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Duncan, then an Ensign, [ 1 ] scored his first and second aerial victories in the Hellcat on 5 October 1943, the second being Japanese flying ace Warrant Officer Toshiyuki Sueda, who previously had downed nine American aircraft ...