Follow Don McFerson on his harrowing first combat mission as a Navy F6F Hellcat pilot in March 1945. From the intense strike ...
In 1943, Japanese pilots dismissed a new American fighter as slow, heavy, and inferior. That aircraft was the F6F Hellcat, ...
Missing World War II pilot, unidentified for 81 years, is laid to rest in St. Augustine Lt. Ralph Cornelius DuPont, a Hellcat pilot, went missing during the Battle of Formosa on Oct. 12, 1944. His ...