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Old 22nd July 2017, 04:38
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Re: Wildcat (Grumman F4F/General Motors FM-1) victories

F4F Results USN (All) from Olynyk, credits = 522
FM-2 Results USN (All) from Olynyk, credits = 428

F4F Results USN (VF & VTB only) from NACSWW2, credits = 449
F4F Results USN (other than VF & VTB) from Olynyk, credits = 40

F4F USMC Results (VF & VTB only) from NACSWW2, credits = 457

FM-2 Results USN (VF & VTB only) from NACSWW2, credits = 422
FM-2 Results USN (other than VF & VTB) from Olynyk, credits = 12

Martlets of various stripes from various sources, my count, credits = 54

NACSWW2 = Naval Aviation Combat Statistics-World War2, a BuAer publication, circa 1946

I am unaware of any credits which could be specifically laid to FM-1s. There were some small number of them in combat areas in the Pacific, but I don’t think they had any exposures to or encounters with enemy aircraft. The USN specifically identifies credits to FMs. Since the FM-1 was essentially an F4F-4 clone (although only the first 10 produced had six guns, the rest had four), as I interpret the USN documentation, the FM-2 was considered by the practitioners sufficiently different from the Grumman F4F-x/Eastern FM-1 types to be counted separately.
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