Word: wildcat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy's most famed fighter plane-the hunchbacked, stubby Grumman F4F Wildcat-is a back number in aerial warfare. The Navy gladly made this admission last week. It could afford to. Besides its fancy, high-powered (2,000 h.p.) new Vought Corsair, it also has another brand-new fighter in service around the world...
...newest fighter is a direct descendant of the Wildcat and a factory mate of the Navy's crack Avenger torpedo plane. Its name: the Grumman Hellcat. This and little more the Navy announced, along with the news that a task force had crept close to the Jap's Marcus Island, thoroughly plastered it with shot and bombs from Hellcats and Avengers...
...Hellcat is strictly a war baby and the first fighter in combat service which was designed and built after Pearl Harbor. Shy, introversive "Roy" Grumman already had his engineering staff working on a bigger and better craft than the Wildcat when the war began, but they rubbed a lot of it out and started over again after they had talked to pilots who had met the Jap in combat...
Click, Click, Click. . . . Pleased with its new teeth, WLB clicked them menacingly in several directions. It reopened the old Montgomery Ward case by summarily ordering the company to grant maintenance of union membership; it denied maintenance of membership to the United Automobile Workers at Chrysler because of continued wildcat strikes...
...sank at a steep angle, then resurfaced. The crew poured out of the crippled vessel; 24 were taken prisoner. The next engagement of the carrier lasted 14 hours, from dusk to daylight. Twice again the escort carrier's planes struck. In the last attack four TBFs and two Wildcat fighters swooped in on the U-boat. The last of their depth bombs were direct hits on the deck; only 17 crew members survived...