Leroy Grumman's F4F Wildcat was not the fastest or most advanced fighter aircraft of World War II. But during the dark months after Pearl Harbor, Wildcat pilots stood firm, held the line, and stopped ...

An F4F Wildcat manufactured by General Motors during the war, was unveiled Aug. 19 as volunteers — who had worked five years to restore it — looked on at the USS Hornet in Alameda.

The F4F‑4, the first Wildcat to feature folding wings, soon followed. By 1942, every U.S. Navy fighter squadron would be flying the F4F. The fighter proved its worth immediately, at the Battle ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Japan introduced the Mitsubishi A6M Zero, it gained a remarkable plane that racked up an impressive combat record through 1941. The Grumman F6F Hellcat achieved fame as a Zero-killer after it was ...

When the hammer of war hit the U.S. out of the blue in 1941, America had only one fighter aircraft capable of holding off the onslaught of the Japanese Mitsubishi Zeroes. It was the single-engined ...

The Air Legends Foundation will bring the four Grumman aircraft — the F4F-3 Wildcat, F6F Hellcat, F7F Tigercat and F8F Bearcat — to Oshkosh.

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 ...

Grumman has built some venerable seaplanes but it ran aground when it put a portly F4F-3 Wildcat on floats and called it an F4F-3S seaplane fighter. Pat Trenner June 5, 2009 ...

Numerous dives and sonar images uncovered what divers believe is a submerged plane, a more than 70-year-old, Grumman F4F Wildcat in the murky St. Johns River. It’s taken about three and a half ...

Four Grumman fighter aircraft (F4F-3 Wildcat, F6F Hellcat, F7F Tigercat and F8F Bearcat) will be featured at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh. The aircraft will be displayed on Boeing Plaza and flown in the ...