F6F HELLCAT IN ACTION
(Softcover)
SS10216

Description:
By Jim Sullivan and Charles Scrivner.
Updated and packed with 20 new pages since Squadron’s last
edition of the F6F Hellcat In Action! During World War II, the
United States Navy needed a powerful fighter to counter the
Japanese Zero. After their debut in combat in early 1943,
Hellcats scored more than 5,000 confirmed kills with a 19-to-1
kill ratio. The folding-wing aircraft were capable of operating
from carriers or land. Some were equipped with radar for night
combat. The heavily-armed fighters could pack armament including
six wing-mounted .50-caliber machine guns, 20mm cannons,
wing-mounted rockets and a bomb rack. Flown by both the U.S. Navy
and Marine Corps, the aircraft was also employed by the British
Fleet Air Arm during World War II. France also made use of the
aircraft after the war, employing it during the Indochina
conflict in the early 1950s. In American service after the Second
World War, remote-controlled versions of the aircraft were used
to test atomic bomb blasts and as flying bombs. Illustrated with
more than 200 photographs, color profiles, and detailed line
drawings. 80 pages.

ISBN = 978-0-89747-808-3.