TIGERCAT DRIVER

ONE KOREAN-ERA VETERAN PILOT who flew F7Fs in action was the late Maj. Carroll E. “Snuffy” Brown, USMC (Ret.), who joined the Marines in 1942. In his career, he flew the Dauntless, Helldiver, Hellcat, Corsair, SNB, Tigercat, Duck, R4D, R5D and eventually the Hercules to amass 9,800 total flight hours. He flew Tigercats for nearly six years and had flown the -1, -2, -3, and -4 models plus the photo model. The Korean War broke out in June 1950 and lasted until July 1953. Snuffy flew F7F-3Ns into harm’s way countless times, had flown 100 F7F-3N combat missions in Korea, and had more than 3,000 Tigercat hours. In Korea, he was attached to the VMF(N)-513 Nightmares, and they were joined by VMF(N)-542 to form a composite unit flagged by 513. When…

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