Help in Identifying F4F Wildcat squadron in Video

[ACarey]

I've been viewing some video obtained from the National Archives. The video contains b/w and color footage of USN and USAAF squadrons and aircraft; including Charles Lindbergh climbing out of an F4U. One part shows a land-based Wildcat squadron in the South Pacific. Anybody have any clues of what squadron it could be?










Link to some color footage of WWII USN aircraft that is part of the overall footage I obtained. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8LCOZWo5XY

[SaxMan]

I'm thinking the Wildcats appear to be F4F-3s, since there are only two machine in the wing, versus the dash-fours six guns. There doesn't appear to be a line on the leading edge indicating that the wings could fold, which would confirm they were dash-threes. The field looks like Henderson Field and the markings are consistent with late '42, early '43 at the latest, as most of the dash-three Wildcats would have been out of service by that time. That should narrow down the number of squadrons that it could be.

[ACarey]

That does help. I figured Henderson Field.

I'm thinking the Wildcats appear to be F4F-3s, since there are only two machine in the wing, versus the dash-fours six guns. There doesn't appear to be a line on the leading edge indicating that the wings could fold, which would confirm they were dash-threes. The field looks like Henderson Field and the markings are consistent with late '42, early '43 at the latest, as most of the dash-three Wildcats would have been out of service by that time. That should narrow down the number of squadrons that it could be.