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Biografisk notat
Edward Young is a retired financial executive with degrees in Political Science from Harvard University and the University of Washington. During his career he had assignments in London, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Bangkok. He has had a long-standing interest in the war in the Pacific, and has written on American fighter units in Burma and the Philippines. He has also co-authored a history of the Curtiss-Wright Corporation, as well as several other works on aspects of aviation history. He is the author of Osprey Campaign Series 136: Meiktila: The Liberation of Burma, Warrior Series 141: Merrillâs Marauders, Osprey Combat Aircraft Series 87: B-24 Liberator Units of the CBI, and Duel Series 41: B-24 Liberator vs. Ki-43 Hayabusa. He lives with his wife in Seattle, Washington.
In the course of two combat tours VF-9 pilots shot down 250 Japanese aeroplanes and produced 20 aces.
VF-9 was activated in March 1942 as part of Carrier Air Group (CAG) 9, one of the many air groups the US Navy was hurriedly forming in the aftermath of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Equipped with Grumman F4F Wildcats, VF-9 first saw combat during the Allied invasion of North Africa in November 1942, where the squadron engaged Vichy French fighters over Morocco. Returning to the United States, VF-9 became one of the first squadrons to receive the Grumman F6F Hellcat and to deploy on the USS Essex, the first of its class of fleet carriers that would form the backbone of the US Navyâs Fast Carrier Task Force. VF-9, the Hellcat, and the Essex all entered combat in the fall of 1943.
This book details how, In the hands of the squadronâs pilots, and with other Navy fighter squadrons, the Hellcat proved superior to the Imperial Japanese Navyâs A6M Zero, which had heretofore been the worldâs premier carrier fighter plane.
Organisation, Training and First Combat Cruise
Second Combat Cruise
Third Combat Cruise
Appendices
In the course of two combat tours VF-9 pilots shot down 250 Japanese aeroplanes and produced 20 aces.
VF-9 was activated in March 1942 as part of Carrier Air Group (CAG) 9, one of the many air groups the US Navy was hurriedly forming in the aftermath of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Equipped with Grumman F4F Wildcats, VF-9 first saw combat during the Allied invasion of North Africa in November 1942, where the squadron engaged Vichy French fighters over Morocco. Returning to the United States, VF-9 became one of the first squadrons to receive the Grumman F6F Hellcat and to deploy on the USS Essex, the first of its class of fleet carriers that would form the backbone of the US Navyâs Fast Carrier Task Force. VF-9, the Hellcat, and the Essex all entered combat in the fall of 1943.
This book details how, In the hands of the squadronâs pilots, and with other Navy fighter squadrons, the Hellcat proved superior to the Imperial Japanese Navyâs A6M Zero, which had heretofore been the worldâs premier carrier fighter plane.
Organisation, Training and First Combat Cruise
Second Combat Cruise
Third Combat Cruise
Appendices