F4F Wildcat Photographs | World War II Database

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XF4F-3 prototype Wildcat in flight, Apr 1939	XF4F-3 prototype Wildcat in flight, 3 Apr 1939

XF4F-3 prototype Wildcat in flight, 21 Jul 1939	F4F-3A Wildcat as it is being accepted from the factory at NAS St Louis, Missouri, USA, 1940. This particular aircraft was later destroyed by friendly fire near Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii the night of Dec 7 1941; the pilot was killed.

F4F-3 Wildcat (foreground), SBD-3 Dauntless (center forward and background), and TBD-1 Devastator (center rear) aircraft on the flight deck of USS Saratoga, fall 1941	Grumman factory photo showing how five of the new F4F-4 “Sto-Wing” Wildcat fighters fit in the same space as two of the previous F4F-3 rigid wing fighters, Bethpage, New York, 1941. In practice, the ratio was more 3-to-2

Torpedo Squadron 5 TBD-1 Devastator aircraft parked at Naval Air Station, Norfolk, Virginia, United States, 13 Sep 1941; note SBD-3, F4F, and SB2U aircraft beyond	Ensign Gayle Hermann's Wildcat on Saratoga's elevator, Oct 1941

Lt. John Thach's Wildcat taking off from Saratoga, Oct 1941	F4F-3 Wildcat inside USS Enterprise's hangar deck, 28 Oct 1941; note spare TBD and SBD aircraft hanging overhead

F4F-3 Wildcat undergoing maintenance in USS Enterprise's hangar deck, 28 Oct 1941; note spare propellers hanging overhead	View of Ewa Field, Oahu, US Territory of Hawaii, 7 Dec 1941

View of Naval Air Station Ford Island, Oahu, US Territory of Hawaii, 8 Dec 1941; note OS2U, SOC, PBY-5, F4F-3, and TBD-1 aircraft	Wrecked Wildcats of VMF-211 collected by Japanese, Wake, circa late Dec 1941

HMS Valiant firing in exercise, 1942; HMS Illustrious with Fulmar and Martlet aircraft in foreground	Martlet fighter of No. 888 Squadron FAA taxiing on the flight deck of HMS Formidable after landing, 1940s

Martlet fighters aboard HMS Formidable in the Mediterranean Sea, 1940s	Martlet fighters of No. 888 Squadron FAA from HMS Formidable in flight, 1940s

Martlet fighters on the flight deck of HMS Formidable, 1940s	Martlet II fighter of No. 888 Squadron FAA shortly after landing on HMS Formidable, 1942