September 29, 2009 at 4:23 am
I got to wondering about the designations of the Grumman Wildcat variants versus the GM built models.
Why was the F4F designation changed to FM as opposed to something like F4M?
I mean, the TBF Avenger was simply changed to TBM when GM built them.
Why did the Wildcat lose the 4 in its designation?