Added: May 26, 2008
From: bruce235001
Duration: 7:32
The Grumman F6F Hellcat was a fighter aircraft descended from the earlier F4F Wildcat, but was a completely new design sharing only a familial resemblance to the Wildcat.Navy and Marine F6Fs flew 66,530 combat sorties (45% of all fighter sorties of the war, 62,386 sorties were flown from aircraft carriers) and destroyed 5,163 enemy aircraft (56% of all Naval/Marine air victories of the war) at a cost of 270 Hellcats (an overall kill-to-loss ratio of 19:1).The aircraft performed well against the best Japanese opponents with a 13:1 kill ratio against Mitsubishi A6M, 9.5:1 against Nakajima Ki-84, 28:0 against Kawanishi N1K-J, and 3.7:1 against Mitsubishi J2M during the last year of the war.The British Fleet Air Arm received 1,263 F6Fs under the Lend-Lease Act and dubbed it Gannet I. The name Hellcat was eventually retained in early 1943 for the sake of simplicity.They saw action off Norway, in the Mediterranean and in the Far East. A number were fitted with photographic reconnaissance equipment.In British service, the Hellcats proved to be a match even for the main Luftwaffe fighters, the Messerschmitt Bf 109 and Focke-Wulf Fw 190.
Channel: Film
Tags: grumman hellcat island japan wake wildcat ww2 wwii zero
Rating: 4.89 (19 ratings) Views: 10138' favoriteCount='23 Comments: 15
21leftcenter Says:
Aug 1, 2008 - thanks for adding this great video
bruce235001 Says:
Aug 2, 2008 - very welcome. Hope to add part 2 later on. Thanks for watching. - Bruce.
LAGASH40 Says:
Aug 19, 2008 - was good, add part 2 soon please
kassandrakassan Says:
Aug 31, 2008 - HEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY Hurry up. We want to see part 222222222222222222222222222222222.
bruce235001 Says:
Sep 1, 2008 - coming up today ... Bruce.
terryjohn Says:
Sep 5, 2008 - thanks pt 2tj
1234563214 Says:
Oct 19, 2008 - couldnt usaf use mustags vs zero?
Mhabalzizhari Says:
Nov 15, 2008 - running vertical shakes off the wildcat but the supercharged 2000hp hellcat will climb you like a curtain
youloser432 Says:
Dec 8, 2008 - because the americans did this, the japanese killed 98 civilian POWs, expecting an attack.
EmperorTiger Says:
Dec 14, 2008 - imagine if the americans came up with the Sabrejet and Furyjet in 1942/3...
phonix032 Says:
Dec 14, 2008 - saburo sakai i hope he made it though it is very unlikely as soon as he gets back to a base they would probably send him back imagine that! those fools so many aces dead the japs set themselves too lose and their downfall came from what they thought was their greatest strengh the samurai code, fight till you die by ur enemy or ur self never rest ur best japan i hope u learned something i really do may those brave bastards live in peace,
UFPAlexraptor Says:
Dec 19, 2008 - Saburo Sakai did survive WW2 and lived to a ripe old age. Before his death he was also a consultant on Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 2
RenerDeCastro Says:
Dec 24, 2008 - there is an episode of dogfights where they show zeroes vs p-51s over japan
DCMclarenFan Says:
Dec 29, 2008 - and he would have taken this guy down in his hellcat with a zero
RenerDeCastro Says:
Dec 31, 2008 - typical of what they did in many parts of the pacific and asia
youloser432 Says:
Jan 1, 2009 - they couldn't because the P-51isn't a carrier aircraft. the closest base would be tarawa(just saying)is 1303 miles and is just enough time to fight for a few minutes
rockyourself13 Says:
Jul 24, 2008 - hellcats are awosome