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 ...

According to the U.S. Navy, the Avenger was first put to use against ... highlighting its “mighty torpedo bombers” and “impressive warbirds” that share the sky along with the opportunity ...

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 men, aboard five U.S. Navy Grumman TBM Avenger torpedo bombers, were participating in a combat and navigation training exercise. One of JD Vance’s closest friends is a Canadian politician.

In 1945, five U.S. Navy Avenger torpedo-bombers disappeared on a routine flight in the area of the Atlantic known as the Bermuda Triangle. Fourteen airmen on the planes were lost and 13 others in ...

A TBF Avenger mockup ... the Grumman TBF Avenger torpedo bomber, Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber, and Curtiss SB2C Helldiver dive bomber. The models were used by Navy and Marine Corps ...

the escort carriers each had a composite squadron of 12-14 obsolescent FM-2 Wildcats and an equal number of TBF/TBM Avenger torpedo-bombers. The Wildcats carried .50-caliber machine guns and a few ...

To date, their whereabouts have never been determined. Decades later, on December 5, 1945, five U.S. Navy Avenger torpedo bombers left Ft. Lauderdale Naval Air Station on a routine training run ...

Fitting a 2,000-pound bomb or torpedo ... diver bombers without the loss of a single airman. Jones believed that assault drones could play a vital part in the coming attack on Japan. Navy top ...

This is the plane that, along with the Aichi D3A “Val” dive bomber, spearheaded the Imperial Japanese Navy ... the Avenger stand out as the most prestigious of all torpedo bombers: She ...