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, 1941	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	Saratoga underway at sea, circa 1942, with 5 Grumman F4F fighters, 6 Douglas SBD scout bombers, and 1 Grumman TBF torpedo bomber on the flight deck