In December 1945, five U. S. Navy TBM Avenger torpedo bombers lifted off from Fort Lauderdale for a routine training mission.

The Grumman TBF Avenger made its combat debut during the Battle of Midway in 1942 - and only one of the six aircraft returned. Despite this rocky start, it quickly became the backbone of the Navy ...

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 ...