On December 11, 1941, just days after Pearl Harbor, two Marine Corps F4F Wildcat pilots found themselves as the last line of ...

At some time during storage, a major component went missing from this FM-1, the nose cowl ring that covered the front of the engine. This discovery led NASM officials to search for a spare. In 1965 ...

At the time, the Museum’s Wildcat was missing a nose cowl ring; the Marine Corps Museum loaned one from the Wake Island Memorial that still bore bullet holes from the Japanese assault on the ...