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Grumman's Wildcat production ceased in early 1943 to make way for the newer F6F Hellcat, but General Motors continued producing Wildcats for both U.S. Navy and Fleet Air Arm use. Late in the war, the Wildcat was obsolescent as a front line fighter compared to the faster (380 mph/610 km/h) F6F Hellcat or much faster (446 mph/718 km/h) F4U Corsair.
{{Information| |Description = Grumman F4F-4 "Wildcat" of Fighting Squadron 41 in flight, circa early 1942. |Source = From the Naval Historical Center. Official United States Navy picture, and thus in the public domain.
U.S. Marine Corps Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat fighters at Henderson Field, Guadalcanal, in January 1943. Date: January 1943: Source: Official U.S. Marine Corps photograph from the USMC University history division . Author: U.S. Marine Corps
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.
The Grumman F4F-3 Wildcat on display was recovered virtually intact from the bottom of Lake Michigan, where it sank after a training accident in 1943 when it went off the training aircraft carrier USS Wolverine. In 2001, the Air Classics Museum remodeled the aircraft to replicate the F4F-3 Wildcat that O'Hare flew on his Medal of Honor flight. [52]
The Grumman F4F Wildcat is an American carrier-based fighter aircraft used by the United States Navy, and the British Royal Navy during World War II. Surviving Wildcats are preserved in museums and some are flying Warbirds. [1] [2]
The better known F4F Wildcat of World War II was a monoplane development of an improved F3F biplane design. This XF4F-3 prototype clearly shows the family lines.. The first production F3F-1 (BuNo 0211) was delivered on 29 January 1936 to the test group at Naval Air Station Anacostia, with squadron service beginning in March to VF-5B of Ranger and VF-6B of Saratoga.
Grumman First used by the British in the North Atlantic, the Wildcat was the only effective fighter available to the United States Navy & Marine Corps in the Pacific Theater during the early part of the Second World War. [90] [91] The Brewster Buffalo was withdrawn in favor of the Wildcat and replaced as aircraft became available. 1937 [90 ...