However, its operational service was relatively short. By 1939, the F2F-1 was gradually replaced by the more advanced Grumman ...

GRUMMAN'S FIRST FIGHTERS FOR THE U.S. NAVY WERE BARREL-CHESTED BIPLANES, known only as the F2F and F3F; they had no nicknames, much less the feline names that became near-synonymous with Grumman ...