The F4F Wildcat may not have been faster or more agile than the Japanese Zero, but it changed the course of aerial combat in the Pacific. With superior durability and tactics like the Thach Weave, US ...

It was the single-engined Grumman F4F Wildcat, a carrier-based fighter first ... Selling for $1,225,000, it comes painted in the colors of one of the era’s Navy squadrons. The airplane has ...

The F4F Wildcat, a carrier-based aircraft, saw service from the surprise attack at Pearl Harbor in 1941 to the Japanese surrender aboard the USS Missouri nearly four years later. NASM As Joe Foss ...

When the Grumman F4F Wildcat entered service in 1940, no one would have predicted that by the end of World War II it would have an air combat kill-to-loss ratio of 6.9:1. Though the Wildcat was ...

The Wildcat’s supercharged 1,200 horsepower R-1830 radial engine allowed it to attain speeds of 331 mph while armed with four jam-prone .50-caliber machine guns, or 320 mph on the heavier F4F-4 ...

Lt. Edward Henry "Butch" O'Hare, seated in the cockpit of his Grumman F4F Wildcat fighter in 1942. The plane is marked with five Japanese flags, representing the five bombers he shot down as they ...