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    THE GREAT HELLCAT/CORSAIR PRODUCTION RACE

    Nov 17, 2020 3 minutes

    BOTH CHANCE VOUGHT AND GRUMMAN were given many Navy E (for “Excellence”) citations for production during WW II. And, indeed, they both did produce a large quantity of excellent Navy fighters.

    Ten Hellcats were delivered in 1942, just six months after the first flight of the XF6F-3. Grumman delivered 2,547 Hellcats in 1943—enough to fill the needs of all the fast-attack carrier task forces. Grumman set the record for the greatest number of aircraft delivered by one company when it

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