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Nile Kinnick correspondence, March-October 1943
1943-04-24: Page 01
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Saturday April 24, 1943 Dear Bob, [Hobbs] Am now in receipt of both your letters, the latter reaching me just today. Appreciate your advice concerning the clothing, but unhappily the captain of our ship has already issued specific orders that we bring just about everything. In fact all my stuff is now aboard except that which I immediately need. You see we are due to pull out any day. Presume we will go out on a short shake-down cruise and then return to pick up our F6Fs. We are scheduled to get a full complement of Grumman's best, and it is a good thing, for the F4Fs we have trained in have taken an awful beating. A couple of days ago we got one F6F in which to familiarize ourselves. I haven't flown it yet, but the boys who have say it is only an overgrown Wildcat. It climbs and dives faster, but at low altitudes with comparable manifold and prop settings it is very little faster on the straightaway. However, the story is that at 25,000 ft it is a demon, and of course it has a greater reserve of power than the F4F. Sorry I can't testify from personal experience. Things have gone along here just about
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Saturday April 24, 1943 Dear Bob, [Hobbs] Am now in receipt of both your letters, the latter reaching me just today. Appreciate your advice concerning the clothing, but unhappily the captain of our ship has already issued specific orders that we bring just about everything. In fact all my stuff is now aboard except that which I immediately need. You see we are due to pull out any day. Presume we will go out on a short shake-down cruise and then return to pick up our F6Fs. We are scheduled to get a full complement of Grumman's best, and it is a good thing, for the F4Fs we have trained in have taken an awful beating. A couple of days ago we got one F6F in which to familiarize ourselves. I haven't flown it yet, but the boys who have say it is only an overgrown Wildcat. It climbs and dives faster, but at low altitudes with comparable manifold and prop settings it is very little faster on the straightaway. However, the story is that at 25,000 ft it is a demon, and of course it has a greater reserve of power than the F4F. Sorry I can't testify from personal experience. Things have gone along here just about
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