Three fighters. One war. From the stubby F4F Wildcat that held the line in 1942, to the deadly F6F Hellcat that crushed the Zero, and finally the lightning-fast F8F Bearcat that arrived just as the ...
On March 18, 1945, Lt. j.g. David L. Mandt took off from Maryland's Patuxent River Naval Air Station to test out the guns on an experimental fighter plane, the XF8F-1 Bearcat. Mandt was a veteran ...
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Southern MD mourns Navy veterans

Both aviators contributed to naval aviation advancements at the Southern Maryland base, which serves as the Navy’s principal ...