The Naval History and Heritage Command remarks, “The F6F accounted for 5,223 enemy aircraft destroyed in aerial combat, the ...

Development of the Hellcat started in mid-1941 with Grumman’s G-50 design, which was initially designated XF6F-1; it first ...

He died when his Grumman Hellcat plane crashed into the summit of Sawel, the highest peak in the area. Wreckage from the crash was recently recovered by aviation archaeologist Jonny McNee ...