Looking for Photo's of Hellcat's of the following
 

Looking for photo's of the following Hellcats of these aces .
LT. Eugene A. Valencia, Jr. VF-9,second only to McCampbell
Lt. Cecil E. Harris VF-18 third
Lt.Patrick D Fleming VF-80
Lt Cornelius Nooy VF-31
Not much I have found on these men's aircraft so I thought I give a go .
Thanks for your time.
Rick

Re: Looking for Photo's of Hellcat's of the following
 

I was looking through my Osprey Hellcat aces book again and I found that I had a 3 X 5 card in it with Lt. Harris name and a crude drawing of a Hellcat I did
with a number 39 on the fin/rudder with a plus sign on top.
The side of the plane in front of the bar and star had a 39 with kill markings aranged as three rows of 7 and the bottom row had 6. total of 27 kills.
I know he had 23 and 2 shared with 2 prob.
I don't remember were I got this from. Model?photo? or maybe a painting.
Any idea anyone?
I know I didn't make this up.I what to say it was a model but I don't remember.
Rick

Re: Looking for Photo's of Hellcat's of the following
 

Since none of the four pilots were Air Group Commanders, they would not have had an explicitly assigned aircraft, but used whatever was on the flight deck in the order they were to take off. Thus they could have flown everything assigned to their squadron (except CAG's aircraft -- that was probably a no-no). Harris' flight log is of no help, as it does not list BuNos.

Enjoy!

Frank.

Re: Looking for Photo's of Hellcat's of the following
 

Thank you .
Had a feeling that was the case.