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The fighter Japan laughed at in World War II

In 1943, Japanese pilots dismissed a new American fighter as slow, heavy, and inferior. That aircraft was the F6F Hellcat, and it would go on to annihilate Japanese naval aviation. This is the story ...
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Lords of the sky : fighter pilots and air combat, from the Red Baron to the F-16 / Dan Hampton

Part I. The War to End all Wars : 1914 -1918 -- From Flight to Fight -- Killer Scouts : 1914-1916 -- The Crucible -- The Year of the Fighter : April 1917-April 1918 -- Darkness Crumbles -- Part II. In ...