#grumman TBM Avenger

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Six Grumman TBM Avengers from USS HANCOCK (CV-19) fly near Okinawa, Ryukyus Islands while supporting the invasion forces.

Date: April 4, 1945

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command: 80-G-319244

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Bombardier-torpilleur Grumman TBM-3E Avenger – 7 février 2007

©Photo de David Wilson

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WWII by Linh Yoshimura Via Flickr: Grumman TBF-1 (Bureau # 00380) Avenger of Torpedo Squadron Eight (VT-8), photographed at Midway, 24-25 June 1942, prior to shipment back to the United States for post-battle evaluation. This badly damaged plane was the only survivor of six VT-8 TBFs that had attacked the Japanese carrier force in the morning of 4 June.

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Pulling out of a low pass over the USS Missouri

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“Aluminum Water Tower” _ 07.08.2024 _ SK

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Grumman TBM Avenger getting serviced by Aviation Ordance Men as they service the .50 caliber machine guns + plane turrets

Circa 1944-45

Source: NationalArchives

Color: Colourised PIECE of JAKE

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Grumman TBM-3E Avenger

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Highly modified Grumman TBM-3W Avenger. Search radar detecting low-flying aircraft.

➤GRUMMAN AVENGER: https://youtu.be/dGy7yLnpy1I

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Grumman TBF / TBM Avenger

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Highly modified Grumman TBM-3W Avenger. Search radar detecting low-flying aircraft

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TBM-3 Avenger released

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Le porte-avions La Fayette (ex USS Langley) de la marine française prêt à catapulter un bombardier-torpilleur Grumman TBM-3E Avenger - 1950's

©Naval History and Heritage Command - NH 92501

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WWII by Linh Yoshimura Via Flickr: Sept 1944 - George H. W. Bush in the cockpit of a TBM Avenger.

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TBM-3D Avengers of VT(N)-90 - January 1945

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USS Belleau Wood (CVL-24)

Burning aft after she was hit by a Nakajima B6N 'Jill' Kamikaze, while operating off the Philippines. Flight deck crewmen are moving undamaged TBM torpedo planes away from the flames as others fight the fires.

USS Franklin (CV-13), was also hit during this Kamikaze attack. 30 October 1944

USS Belleau Wood, an 11,000-ton Independence class small aircraft carrier, was built at Camden, New Jersey. Begun as the light cruiser New Haven (CL-76), she was converted to a carrier before launching and was commissioned in March 1943.

Her original carrier hull number was CV-24, which was changed to CVL-24 in July 1943 at the time she arrived in the Pacific to join the war against Japan.

During the rest of 1943, Belleau Wood took part in raids on Tarawa and Wake Islands and the invasion

of the Gilbert Islands.

In the first half of 1944, Belleau Wood was part the carrier force that supported the Marshall Islands

operation, raided enemy positions throughout the Central Pacific and helped conquer Saipan. During

the Battle of the Philippine Sea, in mid-June, one of her Grumman TBF Avengers torpedoed the Japanese aircraft carrier Hiyo. Following a brief overhaul, she rejoined Task Force 58 for further operations to take Guam, the Palaus and Morotai, as well as raiding the Philippines, Okinawa and Formosa. In late October 1944, Belleau Wood participated in the Battle of Leyte Gulf. While operating off the Philippines on 30 October, she was hit aft by a Kamikaze suicide plane and set afire.

Badly damaged, with 92 of her crew killed or missing and 54 injured and also 12 of her aircraft destroyed, she had to return to the United States for repairs.

Belleau Wood returned to the Western Pacific war zone in February 1945, in time to help in raids on the Japanese Home Islands and support Marines on Iwo

Jima. The rest of the war was spent on further attacks on targets in and around Japan. Her planes participated in the massed aircraft flyover that followed the Formal Surrender of Japan on 2 September 1945. After supporting occupation operations into October, Belleau Wood transported U.S. service personnel back to the United States until early 1946. Generally inactive from then on, she was placed out of commission in January 1947.

Belleau Wood was reactivated in 1953 for loan to France. Under the name Bois Belleau, she served the

French Navy until 1960, when she was returned to U.S. custody and sold for scrapping.

(Colourised by Royston Leonard)

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From Plane Historia: Grumman TBF/TBM Avenger. This ugly torpedo bomber first entered service with the US Navy in 1942. Not all effective military aircraft look great. The Avenger was the heaviest single-engine aircraft of World War Two – a dumpy, carrier-based torpedo bomber that was said to handle “like a truck” and gained the affectionate but decidedly unglamorous nickname “Turkey” amongst its crews. https://planehistoria.com/grumman-tbf-tbm-avenger/