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Remembering the Most Successful Carrier-Based WWII Fighter
Today in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020, I’ll be flying the Grumman F6F Hellcat, the most successful carrier-based Allied fighter of World War II. And to tell that story, I’m aboard the USS Essex (CV-9) just off the eastern coast of the island of Luzon in …