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Jack Cook
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Someone mentioned in an earlier post seeing a F6 broke in half.
Now, I've never seen that but I do have a photo!
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Jack,

Interesting photo...do you have any background on it?

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dat be me!!! i saw the hellcat broke in 1/2..... repeatedly over the years!!!! come on jack!!! you must have seen that film footage of the hellcat hitting the carrier island upon a hard landing, it's 1 of the most famous & regularly seen pieces of ww 2 footage on the documentaries etc.

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come to think of it.... i'd bet that the hellcat taking the swim is from the crash i described!!! it looks from the swimming angle to be where it broke in 1/2 on film, + it didn't catch fire either, same as jack's pic is lacking burn marks.

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you must have seen that film footage of the hellcat hitting the carrier island

come to think of it I have a couple photos of Lt Black of VF-5 in F-27 doing that.
The one your referring to is a different sequence.
The later 2 instances the F6s stayed on the deck though.

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I think the backround on this photo is the ocean. :wink:
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I think the backround on this photo is the ocean.

The guy swimming for his life is a definite tip-off.

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The film clip of the Hellcat hitting the carrier island was used in "Midway". Supposed to have been Heston's son flying it.

Mudge the observant :shock:

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come to think of it.... i'd bet that the hellcat taking the swim is from the crash i described!!! it looks from the swimming angle to be where it broke in 1/2 on film, + it didn't catch fire either, same as jack's pic is lacking burn marks.


Tom, I'm pretty sure the Hellcat came to rest on the carriers deck in that footage. A good a
reason as any to watch the footage again! :wink:

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I'm pretty sure the Hellcat came to rest on the carriers deck in that footage. A good a
reason as any to watch the footage again!

Ya but was it a F6, F9F, SBD, TBF, Concorde or the Space Shuttle?

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correct, i'm implying that it was shoved into the drink after it hit the carrier island.

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i'm implying that it was shoved into the drink after it hit the carrier island.

Not with the freaking pilot still in it!

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Jack Cook wrote:
Ya but was it a F6, F9F, SBD, TBF, Concorde or the Space Shuttle?


In Midway? I believe it was all of those at one point or another.

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