Other fighters and bombers, such as the F4F Wildcat and TBD Devastator, exposed crews to extreme danger in the early war months due to being outclassed by enemy aircraft or forced into hazardous ...
NASM copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. "The Douglas Devastator was the US Navy's first all-metal combat aircraft, the Navy's first airplane with a fully enclosed cockpit, ...