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 ...
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 ...
This 2DVD set focused on the development and combat history of the Grumman F4F Wildcat and was created from holdings at the National Archives the National Museum of Naval Aviation the Naval Historical ...
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 ...
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 ...
During the early Pacific War two iconic fighters faced off in brutal aerial duels that defined the conflict. The rugged American Grumman F4F Wildcat and the agile Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Zero ...
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 ...
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 ...