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F6F Hellcat
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The Bearcat: The Last and the Best of Grumman’s Propeller Driven Cats
Developed to Operate from Escort Carrier Decks, the F8F Barely Missed the Action in World War II On 23 June 1943 a meeting took place at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.…
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Watch: “The Fighting Lady” Starred The Navy’s Finest In World War II
The documentary film “The Fighting Lady” was produced by Twentieth Century-Fox in 1944 and released in 1945. Billed as a “Newsdrama of the Pacific” and shot aboard the Essex-class aircraft…
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WATCH: Task Force 58 Wreaks Havoc on Japan
These Were the First Raids on the Home Islands Since the Doolittle Raid Nearly Three Years Before Between the 16th and 17th of February 1945, US Navy Task Force 58…
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