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2. Grumman TBF Avenger - Wikipedia

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   A TBF-1 dropping a torpedo TBM-3Ds of VT(N)-90 January 1945 Six U.S. Navy Grumman TBM-3E Avenger anti-submarine aircraft of Composite Squadron VC-22 Checkmates flying over the Mediterranean Sea US Navy TBMs (foreground) and SB2C Helldivers drop bombs on Hakodate in July 1945 A TBM-3R COD plane in the early 1950s TBM-3W TBF Avenger Torpedo ...

3. List of surviving Grumman TBF Avengers - Wikipedia

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   TBF-1. 01741 - for static display at the DeLand Naval Air Station Museum at the DeLand Naval Air Station (now the DeLand Municipal Airport) in DeLand, Florida. [93] 05997 - for static display at the Yanks Air Museum in Chino, California. [94] 24085 - in storage at the Paul Garber Facility of the National Air and Space Museum in Silver Hill ...

4. USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) - Wikipedia

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   18 × Grumman TBF Avenger USS Bunker Hill (CV/CVA/CVS-17, AVT-9) was one of 24 Essex -class aircraft carriers built during World War II for the United States Navy . The ship was named for the Battle of Bunker Hill in the American Revolutionary War.

5. VT-8 - Wikipedia

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   Just prior to the Battle of Midway, the reconstituted VT-8 was the first squadron equipped with the new Grumman TBF-1 Avenger, a bigger, faster, longer-ranged replacement for the TBD. When Hornet sailed to the Pacific, a detachment of the squadron under the command of Lieutenant Harold "Swede" Larsen remained in Norfolk, Virginia to receive the ...

6. Gilbert Islands naval order of battle - Wikipedia

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   VT-5: 18 Grumman TBF Avenger torpedo bombers Lexington (Capt. F. B. Stump) Air Group 16 (Lt. Cmdr. E. M. Snowden) VF-16: 36 Grumman F6F Hellcat fighters VB-16: 36 Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers VT-16: 18 Grumman TBF Avenger torpedo bombers 1 light carrier Cowpens (Capt. R. P. McConnell) Air Group 25 (Lt. R. H. Price) VF-25: 24 Grumman F6F ...

7. VA-75 (U.S. Navy) - Wikipedia

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   It was established as Torpedo Squadron VT-18 on 20 July 1943. The squadron was redesignated as VA-8A on 15 November 1946, ... [1] TBF-1 Avenger – Jul 1943;

8. VA-15 (U.S. Navy) - Wikipedia

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   1 May 1944: CVG-4 reformed as a spare air group with a composition that was designed to include 36 fighter aircraft , 36 scout-bomber aircraft and 18 torpedo aircraft (TBF/TBM). This air group composition was organized to operate from the large deck carriers of the Essex class. Squadrons in CVG-4 included VT-4, VF-4 and VB-4.

9. File:Grumman TBF-1 Avenger of VT-8 at Midway, 24 June 1942 ...

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   English: The sole surviving U.S. Navy Grumman TBF-1 Avenger (BuNo 00380, side number 8-T-1) of Torpedo Squadron 8 (VT-8) on Midway's Eastern island, shortly after the Battle of Midway, on 24 June 1942.