On December 5, 1945, fourteen experienced pilots took off from Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The men, aboard five U.S. Navy Grumman TBM Avenger torpedo bombers, were participating in a combat and ...

The A-12 Avenger II, nicknamed the “Flying Dorito” for its radical triangular shape, was the U.S. Navy’s ambitious attempt to create a carrier-based stealth attack aircraft in the 1980s. -It was ...

During the late 1930s the U.S. Navy began to modernize its fleet of carrier aircraft. By the end of the decade, all metal monoplane fighters, dive bombers and torpedo bombers were in service. In ...