Grumman F4F Wildcat of VF-6 testing out machine guns aboard USS Enterprise, 10 April 1942. Ensign Darrell Bennett stood beside his Grumman FM-2 Wildcat 'Smokey's Lucky Witch', USS Gambier Bay, 1 August 1944 A Grumman F6F Hellcat carrier-based fighter aircraft of VF-12 on the flight deck of USS Saratoga (CV-3) in November 1943. F6F-5, 23, flown by Ens. Ardon R. Ives crash lands on the USS Lexington, February 1945 (Ives survived the crash but died in a dogfight in May 1945). VMF(N)-533 F6F Hellcat night fighters seen from an R5C guide plane on the way from Engebi to Saipan. Lieutenant Ronald P. Rip Gift relaxes with other pilots in a ready room on board USS Monterey (CVL-26), after landing on her at night following strikes on the Japanese fleet, 20 June 1944. Note admonition "Get the Carriers" on chalk board in the background. Battle of the Philippine Sea, June 1944. Bell YFM-1A Airacuda. Bell XFM-1 cockpit. Left sub-panel contains electric switches; propeller con...