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Old 09-09-2008, 12:45 PM
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Default F4F "Martlet" for Battle of Britain - arguments here...

Hi pilots,
We need F4F "Martlet" for Battle of Britain - Britain have used them well!
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Royal Navy
The F4F was taken on by the British Fleet Air Arm as part of an interim replacement for the Fairey Fulmar; navalised Supermarine Spitfires not being available because of the greater need of the Royal Air Force.[5] In the European theater, the Wildcat scored its first combat victory on Christmas Day 1940, when a land-based Martlet (as the type was then known in British service) destroyed a Junkers Ju 88 bomber over the Scapa Flow naval base.[6] This was the first combat victory by a US-built fighter in British service in World War II.[6] The type also pioneered combat operations from the smaller escort carriers.[7]
Six Martlets went to sea aboard the converted ex-German merchant vessel HMS Audacity in mid-1941 and shot down several Luftwaffe Fw 200 Condor bombers during highly effective convoy escort operations.[8] These were the first of many Wildcats to see shipboard combat. The Fleet Air Arm was later to abandon the practice of using its own unique names for US-provided aircraft in British naval service, and began to use the U.S. Navy's aircraft names instead.[9]
The MK.III variant was not equipped with folding wings and was only used for land-based operations.
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Oleg nice Ju-87! But would we get F4F?

Regards,

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Last edited by BG-09; 09-09-2008 at 06:21 PM.
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