F6F-5 Hellcat, Capt David McCampbell, Commander Air Group 15, USS Essex, 1944

McCampbell is the United States Navy's all-time leading flying ace and the top F6F Hellcat ace with 34 aerial victories. He was the third-highest American scoring ace of World War II, after Richard Bong and Thomas B. McGuire. He also set a record by shooting down nine enemy planes in a single mission, on October 24, 1944, at the beginning of the Battle of Leyte Gulf, in the Philippines.