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The last "general issue" (non-experimental) propeller driven US WW2 fighter may have been Grumman's Bearcat, a US Navy fighter. Grumman built the "cat family" of aircraft...Wildcat, Hellcat, then the Bearcat which arrived too late in the war to see much action. It served with US forces in Korea, and some were given to the French during their "French Indochina War" (1st Indochina War/1946-1954). Still others were sold to US civilians as racing planes in the 1950's. The USAF was actually test flying their new P-80 Shooting Star jet fighter in 1945, and had very little interest in the latest propeller driven fighter planes. The US's greatest fighter pilot ACE of WW2, Richard Bong (US Army Air Force) was killed in August 1945 test flying the US Army Air Forces new jet, the P-80 Shooting Star. His death was over-shadowed by the Hiroshima bombing in August 1945.
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