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OSPREY AIRCRAFT OF THE ACES • 3

Wildcat Aces

of World War 2

Barrett Tillman

OSPREY

AEROSPACE

SERIES EDITOR: TONY HOLMES

OSPREY AIRCRAFT OF THE ACES • 3

Barrett Tillman

First published in Great Britain in 1995

by Osprey, an imprint of Reed Consumer Books Limited

Michelin House, 81 Fulham Road,

London SW3 6RB

and Auckland, Melbourne, Singapore and Toronto

Reprinted winter 1995

research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright, Design and

Patents Act, 1988, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a

retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic,

electrical, chemical, mechanical, optical, photocopying, recording or otherwise,

without prior written permission. All enquiries should be addressed to the

publisher.

ISBN 1 85532 486 5

Edited by Tony Holmes

Design by TT Designs, Tony & Stuart Truscott

Cover Artwork by Iain Wyllie

Aircraft Profiles by Chris Davey, Keith Fretwell and John Weal

Aircraft Profiles Text by Jon Lake

Figure Artwork by Mike Chappell

Scale Drawings by Mark Styling

Printed in Hong Kong

Front cover

With hunter-like precision, Capt Joe

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Foss of VMF-121 fires a short burst

The editor would like to thank Capt Eric Brown CBE, DSC, AFC, RN, and his

from his F4F-4's six .50 cal

Brownings into a second Mitsubishi

wife, for their warm hospitality and generosity in providing both memories and

G4M1 'Betty' of the Misawa Naval

photographs for this volume. Thanks also to Phil Jarrett, Robert L Lawson, Jon

Air Group. Below him, a mortally

Lake, Jerry Scutts and Richard Riding at Aeroplane for the provision of other key

damaged 'Betty' glides down

towards 'The Slot', off Guadalcanal,

photographs.

the bomber also a victim of Foss'

deadly accurate fire. This action took

EDITOR S NOTE

place on 18 October 1942, Foss

To make this new series as authoritative as possible, the editor would be

having already claimed two Zeros

destroyed and a third damaged

extremely interested in hearing from any individual who may have relevant

earlier in the sortie whilst fighting

photographs, documentation or first-hand experiences relating to the elite pilots,

his way through to the bombers - he

and their aircraft, of the various theatres of war. Any material used will be fully

was now an ace, and he had only

been at Henderson Field nine days!

credited to its original source. Please write to:

(Cover Painting by lain Wyllie)

Tony Holmes, 1 Bradbourne Road, Sevenoaks, Kent, TN 13 3PZ, Great Britain.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER ONE

PRE-WAR NAVAL AVIATION

AND EARLY CAMPAIGNS 6

CHAPTER TWO

MIDWAY 12

CHAPTER THREE

GUADALCANAL 16

CHAPTER FOUR

ON THE OFFENSIVE 54

CHAPTER FIVE

TORCH AND LEADER 60

CHAPTER SIX

THE EASTERN WILDCAT 64

CHAPTER SEVEN

FLEET AIR ARM 69

CHAPTER EIGHT

TRAINING 82

CHAPTER NINE

VICTORY CREDITS

AND WILDCAT EVALUATION 84

APPENDICES 89

COLOUR PLATES COMMENTARY 89

BIBLIOGRAPHY 96

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