F4F Wildcat Photographs | World War II Database

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FM-1 aircraft having crashed into several TBF aircraft while landing on the flight deck of USS Coral Sea, 11 Oct 1943, photo 3 of 3	F4F-4 Wildcats of Marine Fighting Squadron VMF-441 on Nanumea Airfield, Ellice Islands, Oct 23, 1943

Group portrait of airmen with a FM-1 Wildcat fighter aboard USS Coral Sea, 30 Oct 1943	Lieutenant J. P. Weinel posing with a FM-1 Wildcat fighter aboard USS Coral Sea, 30 Oct 1943

WAVES Control Tower Operator at work at Naval Air Station, Floyd Bennett Field, New York, United States, Nov 1943; note FM Wildcat and TBM Devastator aircraft in background	A damaged FM-2 Wildcat being hoisted by a crane from the training aircraft carrier USS Sable to a waiting barge on Lake Michigan, United States, 1943-45.

After missing the arresting wires, an FM-2 Wildcat made it almost the length of the flight deck before nosing over aboard the training aircraft carrier USS Sable on Lake Michigan, United States, 1943-45.	An FM-2 Wildcat after a very hard landing aboard the training aircraft carrier USS Sable on Lake Michigan, United States, 1943-45. Note the broken tailhook, the missing tail wheel, and the mangled wingtip.

An FM-2 Wildcat appears to have damaged its landing gear in a hard landing aboard the training aircraft carrier USS Sable on Lake Michigan, United States, 1944-45.	An FM-2 Wildcat on final approach to land aboard the training carrier USS Sable on Lake Michigan, United States, 1943-44.

An FM-2 Wildcat suffers a hard landing on the training aircraft carrier USS Sable on Lake Michigan, United States, 1943-45.	Crewmen detached the engine from an FM-2 Wildcat that had nosed all the way over on landing aboard training aircraft carrier USS Sable on Lake Michigan, United States, 1944.

Crewmen hunker in the catwalks of training aircraft carrier USS Sable during flight operations on Lake Michigan, United States, 1944.	Deck crews aboard the training aircraft carrier USS Sable man lines to right an FM-2 Wildcat that had nosed completely over. Lake Michigan, United States, 1943-45. Photo 1 of 3.

Deck crews aboard the training aircraft carrier USS Sable man lines to right an FM-2 Wildcat that had nosed completely over. Lake Michigan, United States, 1943-45. Photo 2 of 3.	Deck crews aboard the training aircraft carrier USS Sable man lines to right an FM-2 Wildcat that had nosed completely over. Lake Michigan, United States, 1943-45. Photo 3 of 3.

Deck crews secure a damaged FM-2 Wildcat following a hard landing aboard the training aircraft carrier USS Sable on Lake Michigan, United States, 1943-44.	F4F Wildcat aircraft flying above USS Wolverine, Lake Michigan, United States, 1940s

Fire control crews responded to an FM-2 Wildcat that had nosed all the way over on landing aboard training aircraft carrier USS Sable on Lake Michigan, United States, 1944.	FM-2 Wildcat nosed all the way over on landing aboard training aircraft carrier USS Sable on Lake Michigan, United States, 1944. Note parked TBF-1 Avengers with bent propeller blades. Photo 1 of 2.

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