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The history of the L-4 is best summed up by Ken Wakefield, author of The Fighting Grasshoppers and Lightplanes at War , who graciously contributed the following overview of this aircraft: "The Piper L-4 Grasshopper of WW2 was the military version of the highly popular pre-war J3 Cub, by which name it was more widely known to service personnel. Of the 5,500 L-4 variants produced between 1942 and 1945, some went to liaison squadrons and of the USAAF, but the vast majority went to US Army Ground Forces, for use as Air Observation Posts (Air OPs) with the Field Artillery. In both air and ground…

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