Click to open image viewer. The Grumman F6F Hellcat was originally conceived as an advanced version of the U.S. Navy's then current front-line fighter, the F4F Wildcat (see NASM collection). The ...
The Grumman F6F Hellcat did not arrive at the start of the Pacific War, but when it did, it changed everything. Bigger, tougher, and far more lethal than the Wildcat it replaced, the Hellcat was built ...