The F4F Wildcat faced a daunting challenge against the faster, more agile Japanese Zero, but it turned the fight through ...

Japan began the Pacific War with two major technological advantages over the U.S. Navy: the much more reliable Long Lance torpedo, and the Mitsubishi A6M Zero carried-based fighter, a design that ...

The F4F Wildcat may not have been faster or more agile than the Japanese Zero, but it changed the course of aerial combat in the Pacific. With superior durability and tactics like the Thach Weave, US ...

The F4F Wildcat, a carrier-based aircraft, saw service from the surprise attack at Pearl Harbor in 1941 to the Japanese surrender aboard the USS Missouri nearly four years later. NASM As Joe Foss ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: Both the Zero and Wildcat saw action through the remainder of World War II, many of the former ending their days as Kamikaze aircraft. The Wildcat carried on a little ...

The National Air and Space Museum’s F4F-4/FM-1—the 400th FM-1 built by the Eastern Aircraft Division of General Motors—is currently on display in the Sea-Air Operations exhibition. It was impossible ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Leroy Grumman's F4F Wildcat was not ...

Even in the modern age it is hard to understand how the airplanes of the Second World War managed to operate so greatly, in extreme combat conditions and even heavily damaged. What the engineers of ...

One of the stars of the Battle of the Midway now has a home at that USS Midway Museum. A rare F4F Wildcat arrived at the downtown San Diego museum after several years spent in restoration at the hands ...

What do you do with a military airplane that's too old even for the reserves? In the case of a World War II General Motors FM-2 Wildcat, you turn it into a playground attraction. Then, of course, you ...