Hellcat Has the Zero's Number
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Hellcat Has the Zero's Number
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Hellcat Has the Zero's Number
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SOMETHING that would “go upstairs
faster"—that's what our Navy fighter
pilots asked for. And they have it now, in a
new Grumman plane that makes the lethal
‘Wildcat look like a fireside tabby. First war-
plane to be based on combat experience in
the Pacific, the F6F Hellcat was in quantity
production before the first model flew.
While the Navy intends to let the Japs
learn about the Hellcat the hard way, it is
no secret that the new fighter has a wide
margin over the Wildcat in speed, climb,
guns, and armor. And, since the older plane
chalked up a score of five to one against the
fast but flimsy Zero, that’s something.
The first full squadron of Hellcats was
delivered to the Navy last December, and
there were F6F's in the Marcus Island raid.
They are going to the U. S. Marine Corps
and the British Royal Navy, too.
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eng
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1943-11
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72
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Public Domain (Google digitized)
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Matteo Ridolfi
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Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)
Popular Science Monthly, vol. 143, n. 5, 1943
