Anyway the F4F, even taking the credits with a sack of salt, during it's landbased Marine action sorties, at the very least held it's own against probably Zekes. It would be instructive to try to compare those landbased action sorties and the results with all the other Allied fighters and their encounters with Zekes during that time period. Methinks the lowly, corpulent, Wildcat, even in the F4F4 version is very underrated. Either that or the Marine and USN pilots were superior practitioners of their craft.