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" From December 1941 through the fall 1943 official Nevy and Marine Corps records credited Wildcat Squadrons - both land and carrier based - with 603 confirmed victories against an ackwnoledged loss of 178 in air combat: the kill-loss ratio of 3.3 to 1 that held steady since Midway. The actual ratio was probably closer to 2-1 overall (considered the nature of aerial combat, in which claims are inevitable inflated) but that exchange rate was still impressive" page 92


Wildcat The F4F in WWII, Barrett Tillman