Marine aviators of Fighter Squadron 211, or VMF-211, looked up in frustration as Japanese war planes thronged over Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The attack took them completely by surprise. Not one of their portly Grumman F4F-3 Wildcat fighters was able to get into the air to battle Japan’s vaunted Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighters.
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