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 ...

During the offset of the Pacific War, the Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter reigned as the supreme fighter, uncontested by any American counterparts. This would be the case for the first years of the war, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Three fighters. One war. From the stubby F4F Wildcat that held the line in 1942, to the deadly F6F Hellcat that crushed the Zero, and finally the lightning-fast F8F Bearcat that arrived just as the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Numerous dives and sonar images uncovered what divers believe is a submerged plane, a more than 70-year-old, Grumman F4F Wildcat in the murky St. Johns River. It’s taken about three and a half years ...

Airline pilot Mark Watt flies Steve Craig's Grumman F4F-3 Wildcat at an airshow in 2005. Doug Fisher Steve Craig, a hospitality industry entrepreneur in Lawrence, Kansas, is one of those rare and ...