David McCampbell
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Captain David McCampbell was a United States Navy captain, naval aviator, and Medal of Honor recipient. He retired from the Navy in 1964 with 31 years of service.
David McCampbell in the cockpit, c. 1943
McCampbell while serving as a landing signal officer on board USS Wasp during Operation Bowery. He is signalling to a pilot about to take off, May 1942
Vice Admiral Marc Mitscher speaks with Air Group Commander McCampbell, the task force's leading pilot.
McCampbell's F6F-5 Hellcat fighter on board the aircraft carrier USS Essex 30 July 1944
Grumman F6F Hellcat
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The Grumman F6F Hellcat is an American carrier-based fighter aircraft of World War II. Designed to replace the earlier F4F Wildcat and to counter the Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Zero, it was the United St
David McCampbell
…Navy in 1964 with 31 years of service. McCampbell is the United States Navy's all-time leading flying ace (called Ace of the Aces in the Navy) and top F6F Hellcat ace with 34 aerial victories. He was the third-highest American scoring ace of World War II and the highest-scoring American ace to survive the war…
Grumman F6F-3 Hellcats in tricolor camouflage
Unpainted XF6F-1 prior to its first flight (1942)
F6F-3 aboard USS Yorktown has its "Sto-Wing" folding wings deployed for takeoff (circa 1943-44).
An early F6F-3 in blue-gray over light gull-gray (1943)