If I'd been a naval aviator, I'd want an F6F.
The Hellcat was a heck of a fighter as well.
FWIW, the (F6F), Corsair (F4U), and Thunderbolt (P47) were all powered by the same engine, the Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp
Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp. This was a 46L (2,800 cu in) 18 cylinder double bank radial engine of 2,100 hp and more than 125k were built.
The Germans built some capable fights also, the FW-190D comes to mind. The Me-262 was ultra fast but limited in range. Many shot down were coming in for a landing, and many crashed on landing.
The ME262 was well beyond it's time and a great plane but simply a case of too little, too late for the Germans. They built about 1,400 and many of those never got operational for various logistical reasons as the third Reich collapsed. By contrast the US built more than 15,000 Mustangs and more than 15,000 Thunderbolts while the British built more than 20,000 Spitfires and 4,000 of their own jet, the Meteor.
You probably already know this, but the high number of 262's shot down while landing (and also while on the ground, and taking off) was not due to some design defect, it was because the American and British pilots knew they couldn't keep up with the German Jet in flight but they vastly outnumbered the Luftwaffe at that point in the war so they simply took up station over the German airfields and destroyed the German jets when they were at their most vulnerable either taking off and getting up to speed or landing while low (often critically low) on fuel and ammunition.
