any F4F Wildcat fans out there?

[Ivan1GFP]

Hi Cota1992,

I only work a few blocks away from the museum (near the Washington Marina).

- Ivan.

 

[Cota1992]

Hi Cota1992,

I only work a few blocks away from the museum (near the Washington Marina).

- Ivan.

It can be a small world!
I'm up in North West.
Art

 

[Greg Boeser]

Finnish B-239s were armed with a single .30 cal and single .50 cal in the nose, plus a single .50 cal in each wing. The .30 cals were later replaced with a second synched .50 in 1942.

 

[Greg Boeser]

Pretty common for US pre-war fighters. P-36, P-35, F3F, F2A.

 

[Wurger]

Still no pics from first post.... Odd.

No wonder... the thread was started nine years ago. The poster didn't upload his pics onto our forum server but kept them on the external one. So it is very likely these images could have been moved or just deleted.

 

[swampyankee]

Of course there are F4F fans out here!

 

[R Leonard]

True, VF-5 was a Yorktown Air Group squadron, but VF-5 never operated F4Fs with either the YAG or from Yorktown. VF-5 was stationed ashore transitioning to F4Fs when the war started for the Americans. Yorktown left Norfolk for points west on 15 Dec 41 and the VF squadron assigned to the YAG was VF-42, an erstwhile Ranger/RAG squadron which had been operating off Yorktown since late June 1941. VF-5 never did catch up with Yorktown, arriving at Pearl Harbor in the days immediately after the ship's loss at Midway. You may note the early Atlantic Fleet paint job and markings.