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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 97484

Grumman F4F "Wildcat" fighters


Fly in tactical formation of four-plane divisions, comprised of two-plane sections, circa mid-1943.
The planes are wearing the red-outlined national insignia briefly employed at that time. The original caption states, in describing that insignia: "Note the new U.S. insignia, marked by the addition of a white bar, bordered in red, on each side of the star-and-circle. Formerly, U.S. insignia, the Jap rising sun and the German Cross all appeared as similar small dots to American pilots, when view(ed) at a distance."

The original print is from Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison files.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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19 January 2001