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F6F-5 Hellcat Grumman History:
The date was September 1, 1943 back the Hellcat
aboriginal saw activity adjoin the Japanese back fighters off the
USS Independence (CVL-22) attempt bottomward a concern seaplane.
After which at 23rd of November, Hellcats affianced Japanese
aircraft over Tarawa, cutting bottomward a claimed 30 Mitsubishi
Zeros for the accident of one F6F. On November 11, 1943, Hellcats
were affianced in day-long fights with abounding Japanese aircraft
including A6M Zeros, claiming added than 100 victories while
accident few F6Fs over Rabaul, New Britain. The "Thach Weave" had
developed into a accumulation tactic by that time. Each time an
adversary fighter fabricated a run at a area of US fighters, the
pursued Hellcats would breach appear the opposing accumulation that
would cantankerous over and force the Japanese to breach off or
betrayal themselves to the Hellcat's weapons. The "wingman" approach
started which are still acclimated to this day, acceptance beneath
maneuverable US aircraft such as the Hellcat to accord with abundant
added active Japanese opponents.
Hellcats were complex in about all engagements
with Japanese air ability from that point onward. Navy and Marine
F6Fs flew 66,530 action sorties (45% of all fighter sorties of the
war, 62,386 sorties were aureate from aircraft carriers) and
destroyed 5,163 adversary aircraft (56% of all Naval/Marine air
victories of the war) at a amount of 270 Hellcats (an all-embracing
kill-to-loss arrangement of 19:1).The aircraft performed able-bodied
adjoin the best Japanese opponents with a 13:1 annihilate
arrangement adjoin Mitsubishi A6M, 9.5:1 adjoin Nakajima Ki-84, 28:0
adjoin Kawanishi N1K-J, and 3.7:1 adjoin Mitsubishi J2M during the
aftermost year of the war. In the arena advance role, Hellcats alone
6,503 bags of bombs.
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