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Originally Posted by T308
There wasn't a lot of plane swapping as the fighters were deployed by division and the same four pilots flew together. VF-2 had 21 aircraft and 22 pilots.
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You make a good case for Gayler, and you might be correct. I was only relating what was being discussed elsewhere.
It's said that Vorse ended up landing on the Yorktown, and that he flew more than one Wildcat that day.
There is general speculation that after their initial assignments, pilots at Coral Sea were being sent back up in any plane that was fueled, serviced, re-armed, spotted on deck and ready to go.
Do you know otherwise, that they only flew their personally assigned aircraft, and waited, during a battle, for those aircraft to be serviced, re-armed and re-spotted on deck?