A correct Blue Angels Hellcat for the Flying Iron F6F-5 2024-04-28

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A correct Blue Angels Hellcat for the Flying Iron F6F-5 - Corrected version of the Blue Angels Hellcat for the Flying Iron F6F-5 by Cazzie

By the Spring of 1946 the US military had demobilized and the US Navy was looking for a way to attract young men into aviation. The Secretary of the Navy approached Vice Admiral Frank Wagner at Pensecola about the possibility of the Navy forming a Flight Demonstration squadron using their best aviators to attract crowds at air shows and possibly draw young recruits into Naval aviation.

Dispatch from Wagner reached Rear Admiral Ralph Davidson who approached Lt. Cdr. Roy M. "Butch" Voris to...

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