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...Lingayen Gulf are sending up a terrible barrage and are giving the hottest reception ever recorded in the annals of war to the oncoming enemy convoys. . . . Bellows from our guns spread roaringly across the bay. . . . The enemy task force has battleships or other huge warships at its very front. . . . Grumman and Curtiss planes fly over our positions and repeatedly carry out dives, thus bombing and strafing our positions with machine guns...
...carriers flew two squadrons of new-type Chance-Vought Corsair fighters, piloted by Marine Corps aviators. The marines long ago had won their fight to fly from escort carriers (TIME, Oct. 23), but this was different; this was the big time. They went as escort for Avenger torpedo bombers. Grumman Hellcats with Navy pilots made up the rest of this carrier's complement. It had no dive-bombers-McCain and Thach never had believed in dive-bombers...
...first five white men to reach Munda airport (he got there 24 hours before our troops marched in) -and in the first raid on Marcus Island he saw three new fighting tools first tested in battle: the Essex class carrier, the Independence type carrier, and the sensational Grumman Hellcat...
...GRUMMAN President...
...Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. Bethpage...