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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

The legend of the Bermuda Triangle deepened after Flight 19 — which consisted of five TBM Avenger Torpedo Bombers — took ... Some say the US Navy’s Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation ...

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 ...

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 ...

At the time of her acceptance by the Navy, the Devastator was the most ... Mitsubishi Zero fighters and triple-A guns during the torpedo bombers’ ill-fated attack on the Japanese carriers.

In early September, the attack that would initiate the Chichi-Jima Incident took place: after a raid from the USS San Jacinto aircraft carrier by six Grumman TBM Avenger torpedo bombers and several ..