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Lt Yamaguchi's Yokosuka D4Y3 Judy kamikaze plane taken seconds before impacting the USS Essex off the Philippines 25th Nov 1944 01

Lt Yamaguchi's Yokosuka D4Y3 Judy kamikaze plane taken seconds before impacting the USS Essex off the Philippines 25th Nov 1944 01

  Grumman F6F Hellcat

Type: Fighter aircraft

Manufacturer: Grumman

Maiden flight: 26 June 1942

Introduced: 1943

Retired: 1954, USN

Primary users: United States Navy USN, United States Marine Corps USMC

Foreign users: Royal Navy RN, French Navy FN

Produced: 1942-1945

Total Number of F6F-3 and F6F-5 's built: 12,275

 

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