B.J. Park's Black Death Nightfighter shows two Grumman F6F-5N Hellcat fighters taking off on a night patrol from Chimu Field, Okinawa, in July 1945. Three squadrons of Leatherneck nightfighters flew from Okinawa in the closing months of the war.(usmc
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