GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KJCT) - Breathing new life into a piece of history. Near the Grand Junction Airport, a 1945 torpedo bomber, once used in World War II, is hiding away at the Rocky Mountain Wing ...

When the TBF Avenger was unveiled on December 7, 1941, it was meant to be a game changer. Instead, its first combat mission ...

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) – Have you ever wanted to ride in a WWII TBM Avenger torpedo bomber aircraft? The Capital Wing of the Commemorative Air Force (CAF) will offer warbird rides at Grimes Field on ...

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. The Capital Wing of the Commemorative Air ...

SEASIDE – Nearly 80 years ago, a Seaside man boarded a World War II-era torpedo bomber for the last time before he was killed in action and lost in the Pacific, but his remains were finally found ...

Unlike its namesake, our flying fish was slow and plodding, and it looked downright ungainly, hence its unofficial nickname of “Stringbag,” taken after a style of women’s purse that was popular in ...

The last time anyone saw three newly-rediscovered military aircraft, U.S. forces were pummeling Japanese targets in the western Pacific during World War II."Operation Hailstone" in February 1944 was a ...

LOWER TOWNSHIP — Rio Grande farmer Ed Wuerker was just a boy when World War II torpedo bombers from Naval Air Station Wildwood practiced hitting dummy targets laid out on farm fields.

When one thinks of U.S. Navy aircraft carrier operations in the months leading up to the Battle of Midway, one name that readily comes to mind is Lt. Edward “Butch” O’Hare, the F4F-3 Wildcat pilot ...