Its ungainly size and appearance may have gained it the nickname of the “turkey,” but in reality, the Grumman TBF Avenger was anything but. Forged in the fires of World War 2, this iconic torpedo ...

TBF Avenger Has a Place in History In my recent articles on the U.S. Navy’s legendary Iowa-class battleships, I noted that these ships never did engage in any fights with enemy battleships.

The re-discovery, identification and documentation of Grumman TBF Avenger’s wreck, lying off the coast of Bambalapitiya, by underwater explorers- Dharshana Jayawardena, Keerthi Karunaratne and Manjula ...

The Avenger's successful military career is only part of the story. After the war, many surplus Avengers were used successfully as aerial firefighting aircraft. Many of these were still in use more ...

In the pre-dawn glow of October 25, 1944, four tubby TBF Avenger torpedo bombers took off on a routine patrol from the USS St. Lo. She was one of sixteen small escort carriers in Taskforce 74.4 ...

More than 80 MIA cases worldwide are ready for recovery thanks to Project Recover’s work. The group hopes to find the other Grumman TBF Avenger involved in the 1942 accident. Its crew is also MIA.

On October 11, 1942, three U.S. TBF-Avenger aircraft from squadron VT-3 collided during a training flight off Naval Air Station Kaneohe, now Marine Corps Base Hawaii. Two of the aircraft crashed into ...

A TBM Avenger, the largest and heaviest single-engine bomber of World War II, will visit the Raleigh Executive Jetport in Sanford for one day on April 16.

“On October 11, 1942, three U.S. TBF-Avenger aircraft from squadron VT-3 collided during a training flight off Naval Air Station Kaneohe, now Marine Corps Base Hawaii,” explained the Scripps ...

Bush was 19 years old at the time. He enlisted after the attack on Pearl Harbor and was learning to fly a TBF 1-C Avenger from November 1943 through January 1944.

Photo / Noel Josephs Many will remember the Grumman TBF-1C Avenger, registration number NZ2539, which was in the Havelock North Domain Playground (now Village Green) from the mid-1960s to around 1975.