Leaving the Guadalcanal exhibit, the museum takes you to the excellent display of multiple World War Two aircraft in their collection.
The Grumman FM-2 Wildcat, a higher-performance and the most numerous variant of the F4F Wildcat.
The F6F Hellcat, the sucessor to the Wildcat on the Navy's larger aircraft carriers, whike the FM-2 and other Wildcats continued serving on the light and escort carriers:
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The FG-1D Corsair
The Douglas SBD-3 Dauntless
The Slow-But-Deadly dive bomber that hammered the Japanese aircraft carriers at Midway.
There's also trainers from the period, including the first aircraft acquired for the museum, a Boeing Stearman:
There's not only Naval and Pacific theater aircraft, there's lots more on display, including a rare original WACO CG-4 Hadrian Glider, a displayed in the colors of one of the four that was sponsored by the Greenville Schools in Michigan from student funding during World War 2 and built by the Gibson Refrigerator Company of Greenville.
The Glider it is painted in the colors of the 45th glider that landed during the Normandy invasion.
There's a also a C-47 on display and interestingly, some of the dummy paratroops that were dropped to confuse the Germans during the early hours of D-Day:
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| It's a Bird, It's A Plane, It's A Decoy! |
Rather neat.
Tons of things to see in that room alone.
2 comments:
You know I could never decide which was the prettier of the the two aircraft; the Corsair or the J version of the Lightning
chris: Yep, I'm partial to the Corsair but the P38-J Skidoo is fantastic to see in flight.
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