November 19, 1943. Lt. (jg) Hamilton McWhorter III becomes the first pilot to claim all five victories in the Grumman F6F Hellcat. Operating off the USS Essex as a member of VF-9, Lt. (jg) McWhorter claims a Mitsubishi G4M medium bomber, code-named "Betty" with one burst from his .50 caliber machine guns. Traveling at approx. 400 mph, McWhorter closed on the low flying bomber for a full deflection shot. Snapping out a short burst, his bullets strike the Betty's fuselage, pass through the cockpit, and destroy the port engine which erupts in a ball of flame. The Betty yaws to the left, skips once, and then impacts the waves, immediately turning into a ball of flaming wreckage. Following recovery aboard Essex, Lt. (jg) McWhorter's armorers check his ammunition supply, and are surprised to discover that only a total of 86 rounds were expended, forever afterward earning him the nickname "One-Slug." The following February, Lt. (jg) McWhorter downed his tenth Japanese plane to become the world's first Hellcat double ace.
13" x 19" watercolor
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