Explore the history of the Grumman F6F Hellcat, the U.S. Navy's legendary WWII carrier fighter that first flew on June 26, ...

Today in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020, I’ll be flying the Grumman F6F Hellcat, the most successful carrier-based Allied fighter of World War II.And to tell that story, I’m aboard the USS ...

March 1945, over the Pacific - a new pilot takes off in an F6F Hellcat for his very first combat mission. What starts as a strike against a Japanese airfield turns into a brutal, chaotic day of ...

A View from the Back: The Recollections of a Fleet Air Arm Observer 1941-1946 by Tony Inman Part 12 of 14 (May - Jul 45) On another occasion we had been detached to find the hospital ship, a Dutch ...

The Grumman F6F Hellcat made her maiden flight on June 26, 1942, and was officially introduced into service with the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps the following year. The F6F was the direct ...

Lieutenant Johnny Myerscough, who has died aged 100, barely left Lancashire except to fly for the Fleet Air Arm in the Second World War, when he won a DSC for gallantry, skill and inspired leadership.

The Grumman F6F Hellcat on loan from the National Naval Aviation Museum is on display at the Naval Air Station Wildwood Aviation Museum in Lower Township. The local museum will be taking part in ...

U.S. Navy Pilots David McCampbell and Roy Rushing made history in a heroic air battle over the Leyte Gulf On October 24, 1944, the Battle of Leyte Gulf had just begun when two Hellcat pilots U.S ...

Taken during the Wings of Eagles Final Victory Air Show 1995 at the National Warplane Museum, the following clip shows three iconic Grumman Ironworks warbirds, the F8F Bearcat, the F6F Hellcat and ...

LOWER TOWNSHIP — A new addition has the Naval Air Station Wildwood Aviation Museum buzzing with excitement: Grumman's F6F Hellcat!