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The First Hellcat Ace
Language: en
Pages: 228
Authors: Hamilton McWhorter
Categories: Fighter pilots
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-09 - Publisher:

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After earning his Wings of Gold in early 1942, Ensign McWhorter was trained as a fighter pilot in the robust but technologically outmoded F4F Wildcat. His fifth
The First Hellcat Ace
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Cdr Hamilton McWhorter
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-03-15 - Publisher:

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Hamilton McWhorter was a WWII naval aviator and the first-ever F6F Hellcat ace.
F6F Hellcat Aces of VF-9
Language: en
Pages: 96
Authors: Edward M. Young
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-03-20 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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In the course of two combat tours VF-9 pilots shot down 250 Japanese aeroplanes and produced 20 aces. VF-9 was activated in March 1942 as part of Carrier Air Gr
F4F Wildcat and F6F Hellcat Aces of VF-2
Language: en
Pages: 96
Authors: Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-02-20 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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An illustrated history of the pilots of VF-2 who had a spectacular scoring rate and fought in many of the major aerial campaigns of the Pacific War. The first V
Hellcat Aces of World War 2
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Barrett Tillman
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996-07-15 - Publisher: Osprey Publishing

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Grumman's successor to the pugnacious Wildcat, the Hellcat embodied many of the lessons learnt by F4F pilots in the opening months of the Pacific war. Introduce