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The Brutal Reality of Flying the F6F Hellcat
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 warfare. The skies explode with enemy fire, and the American fleet suffers one of its worst losses of the war. This is the real story of what it was ...
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In 1943 aboard the escort carrier USS Card, a Grumman F6F Hellcat flew too low on approach to the runway, a common and dangerous hazard during early carrier aviation in World War II, when pilots were still mastering carrier landings under combat conditions. Due to misjudging glide path and airspeed, the aircraft crashed into the aft area before reaching the flight deck, illustrating the unforgiving nature of carrier operations and the steep learning curve faced by naval aviators flying the formi
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