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The Grumman F6F Hellcat is an American carrier-based fighter aircraft of World War II.Designed to replace the earlier F4F Wildcat and to counter the Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Zero, it was the United States Navy's dominant fighter in the second half of the Pacific War.
English: A U.S. Navy Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat of Fighter Squadron 1 (VF-1) in flight over California (USA), in early 1943. VF-1 was redesignated VF-5 in July 1943.
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]
Marine Fighting Squadron 511 (VMF-511) was commissioned on 1 January 1944, at Marine Corps Auxiliary Air Field Oak Grove, North Carolina. [3] The squadron was a part of Marine Aircraft Group 51 (MAG-51) and its original mission was to take part in Operation Crossbow (Project Danny), an ill-conceived plan to have Marine squadrons aboard escort carriers hunt down V-1 flying bomb launch sites in ...
Upon commissioning, the squadron was assigned the F6F Hellcat. They were relocated to San Diego, California, in mid-summer, 1944 in preparation for a move to the combat zone. Late in October, the squadron arrived at Ulithi, in the Caroline Islands and immediately began flying combat air patrols. Squadron logo during WWII when they were VMF(N)-542
VF-9 became the first Navy squadron to receive the F6F-3 Hellcat in February 1943. [2]: 7 In April 1943 CVG-9 embarked on the Essex for deployment to the Pacific Fleet. [4] By mid-June 1943 Essex had arrived at Naval Station Pearl Harbor and CVG-9 was based at Naval Air Station Barbers Point. [5] In September Essex left Pearl Harbor with CVG-9 ...
English: A U.S. Navy Grumman F6F Hellcat of Fighting Squadron 8 (VF-8) is launched from the aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill (CV-17), in 1944. VF-8 was assigned to Carrier Air Group 8 (CVG-8) aboard the Bunker Hill from March to October 1944.
F6F-3/-5 Hellcat: Fighter Squadron 38 or VF-38 was an aviation unit of the United States Navy. Originally established on 20 June 1943, it was disestablished on 31 ...