After three crewmen were swallowed up by the Pacific at the end of World War II, a modern-day rescue effort went to find them ...

Perhaps the most famous incident linked to the area is the disappearance of Flight 19, which occurred in December 1945 and ...

Now, finally, the U.S. Navy was striking back ... to Hawaii and assumed command of torpedo squadron VT-47, equipped with new TBM Avenger bombers. The squadron soon embarked on the light carrier ...

Franzke, who loved to jitterbug as a kid, served in the Navy from 1943 to 1945, flying Grumman TBF Avenger torpedo bombers off the carrier USS Saginaw Bay in the Pacific.

Franzke, who loved to jitterbug as a kid, served in the Navy from 1943 to 1945, flying Grumman TBF Avenger torpedo bombers off the carrier USS Saginaw Bay in the Pacific.

The Grumman TBF Avenger was an American torpedo bomber that was given a remarkable trial by fire: the Battle of Midway. Debuting in 1942 with the US Navy and US Marine Corps, designed for anti ...

A section of the wreckage of a World War II-era Avenger torpedo bomber that crashed during ... aloud,” Krueger says in the statement. “The Navy has a solemn responsibility to ensure the ...

After more than 100 years, we have the first actual image of the wreck of a sunken U.S. Navy submarine from World ... USS F-1 submarine and a Grumman TBM Avenger. Until this year there were ...

During the expedition, the team also captured images of a U.S. Navy Avenger torpedo bomber that crashed near the same area in 1950. Scientists released video and images of the aircraft ...

They also surveyed the wreckage of a Navy Avenger torpedo bomber that crashed near the area where the USS F-1 sank. “We were careful and methodical in surveying these historical sites so that we ...