Thanks for sharing this link with us. I went over there and checked it out. Lots of great information there.

I can't contribute to this group build except in words but I admire the work being done. The link provided by Mr. Seitz had some very interesting information. It's too bad they didn't compare the F6F to the Zero,but I suspect the performance of the Hellcat would be slightly less than that of the F4U, so no big deal ... especially now, 6 decades later! We've known for ages how good the Zero was against its' foes, but this report's conclusions were very interesting, nonetheless. I've often wondered "What If" regarding the performance of the Zero, the F6F, & the F4U would have been had they been used in Europe against Me109s, FW190s, etc! Someone may correct me if this is incorrect (that those A/C weren't used in the European theater) but It's an interesting thing to ponder.. IMHO

Jeff, Hellcats from the USN and the RN were used in the Allied invasion of the South of France. They shot down several Luftwaffe aircraft, no specific details.

The failure of U S Navy torpedos early in the war is unsurprisingly not well publicized. Our submarines were firing lots of them, for no results. Skippers were being releaved for poor results, and the Bureau in the Navy responsible for the torps kept saying everything was just fine. There's a two volume set on the U. S. Submarine effort by Clay Blair. The first volume has the story of the torpedo problem. There should have been court martials, reliefs, and reductions in rank and retirements. It just got real quiet.

VERY interesting, Mr. Ley. Thanks for adding to this.