Two US Grumman F4F-3 Wildcats, carrier-based fighters that participated in the Pacific War during the Second World War (1939-45), photographed by Second Class H.S. Fawcett on 10 April 1942. Both of these aircraft participated and were lost in the Battle of the Coral Sea in May 1942.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
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