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wildcats
1. Amongst the heather and the wild flowers roamed a family of wildcats, the mountain hare and the marsh fritillary butterfly
2. Although the coyotl clan covered a larger territory than the wildcats, their settlements were small and few along the road
3. The Kwawia had the same clans as their eastern neighbors although the coyotl were in the west and the wildcats were in the east
4. Perhaps the wildcats
5. and wildcats had no experience at such things
6. The fighter was indeed much bigger than Geiger’s Grumman F-4F WILDCATs, which formed with a few Douglas SBD dive bombers the backbone of the Cactus Air Force
7. Normally, Ingrid would have concentrated on the bombers, but she was worried about the slow, ungainly WILDCATs that were also going to intercept this raid soon
8. As if they had heard him, the three surviving Japanese fighter pilots, seeing new targets that they knew they could catch, gave up on the P-38s and turned towards the incoming WILDCATs, which were still huffing and puffing to get to their altitude
9. Galer still lost two of his WILDCATs to the ZEROs, with only one pilot parachuting out, while shooting down himself one of the Japanese, with one of his pilots destroying a second ZERO
10. Again, due to the short range, slower speed and slow climbing rate of their F4F WILDCATs, the Marine and Navy pilots at Henderson Field ended entering the action last, finding out on arrival at the scene of the battle that the Witches and Ingrid had already shot down nearly all of the 32 enemy escort fighters, plus seven of the 25 G4M bombers
11. With the Japanese escort neutralized, the Marine and Navy aviators were free to engage at will the remaining bombers, but still lost three of their WILDCATs to the powerful defensive armament of the Mitsubishi G4Ms, each armed with a total of four 20mm cannons and two 7
12. ‘’If that first group is really made up of forty or more ZEROs, then leaving it intact to duke it out with our WILDCATs could cost us heavily, Admiral
13. Up to now, when facing only ZEROs, my WILDCATs can manage on a good day an average one to one kill rate, if we are not too outnumbered
14. Against forty ZEROs, my present fourteen WILDCATs that are now in the air would be butchered
15. Things didn’t get better when the WILDCATs finally dove on the Japanese bombers of the second wave, which were protected by only six ZERO fighters, as the fighter control frequency then exploded into voluminous and endless chatter, exclamations and shouts, rendering nearly impossible any command control of the battle
16. Only eight of the P-38s, including the one of Ingrid Dows, were then able to go assist the WILDCATs
17. While the latter had done more than a fair job of cutting down to size the bomber wave, many Japanese planes were still steadily approaching Henderson Field when the eight P-38s joined up with the WILDCATs
18. This is not meant to disparage your Marine and Navy flyers, but my planes have a much greater range than their SBDs and WILDCATs and we should fully use that advantage
19. Our WILDCATs will be held in reserve but will launch if any Japanese plane shows up within 300 miles of Henderson Field
20. While the WILDCATs of the Cactus Air Force had not participated in the anti-shipping missions, they had their piece of the action today when a mixed force of Japanese seaplane fighters had brazenly attacked Henderson Field at twilight, with the WILDCATs shooting down six of the seaplane fighters while the anti-aircraft gunners of the 99th CAG had destroyed another five aircraft
21. The first of the Corsairs took off from Victorious, followed by Barracudas, Wildcats and Hellcats from the other carriers
22. The Wildcats and Hellcats came in low over the hills, strafing the battleship with machine-gun fire as the Barracudas began their bombing dives
23. I remembered how on the ranch in my youth the turkeys gathered and roosted in clots in the cypress trees, out of reach of wildcats and coyotes, the only indication I know of that turkeys have any intelligence at all
