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To: Lurkinanloomin

Navy or Marine. It was designed as a Navy aircraft, but early problems and squeamishness of navy brass relegated it to the Corps initially until they worked out carrier ops.


38 posted on 05/27/2017 7:39:07 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: AFreeBird

Contrary to the rumor mill, the Corsairs were not kicked off of the carriers due to ops issues, but due to the frequent changes which caused inventory problems. Note that there were really only two variants of the Hellcat (-3 & -5).


56 posted on 05/27/2017 9:29:34 PM PDT by chb
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