Just as the Pershing M26 tank was deployed to the ETO during the closing weeks of that campaign, so too, was the Grumman 747 Tigercat deployed to the Pacific just weeks before the Japanese surrender:
"One excellent use being made of the TIGERCAT is its night-fighter version. As the F7F-2N the twin-engine fireball can track down approaching aircraft, locate enemy ships, prowl for special hunting targets and in many other ways make itself thoroughly objectionable to the stealthy Jap."
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