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The Grumman TBF Avenger (designated TBM [1] for aircraft manufactured by General Motors) is an American World War II-era torpedo bomber developed initially for the United States Navy and Marine Corps, and eventually used by several air and naval aviation services around the world.
TBM-3 NZ2518 TBF-1 NZ2504 Airworthy TBM-3. 91110 - Brendon Deere, based at RNZAF Base Ohakea, painted as NZ2518 "Plonky" (build number 47733). [11]On display TBF-1. 24336 - RNZAF serial NZ2504, RNZAF Museum in Wigram, New Zealand, painted in its original colours as RNZAF serial NZ2504.
The aircraft were three TBM-1Cs (BuNo 45714, 'FT3'; BuNo 46325, 'FT81'; BuNo 73209, 'FT117'), one TBM-1E (BuNo 46094, 'FT36'); and one TBM-3 (BuNo 23307, 'FT28'). Each aircraft was a version of the Grumman TBF Avenger, built by General Motors' Eastern Aircraft Division under wartime production license. Under the U.S. Navy aircraft designation ...
General Motors TBM-3E Avenger No. 86180 is a surviving TBM Avenger torpedo bomber located at the Naval Air Station Wildwood Aviation Museum in Lower Township, Cape May County, New Jersey, United States. The plane, a variant of the Grumman-designed Avenger, was built by General Motors in 1945.
Grumman FM-2 Wildcat. Grumman TBM Avenger. VGS-25: Jan 1943 VC-25: Mar 1943 VC-6: Sep 1943 5 October 1945 VC-8: VC-8: 1943 1945 Operated fighter and scouting planes from an escort carrier (CVE) VC-10: VC-10: 23 Sep 1943 1945 Operated fighter and torpedo planes from USS Gambier Bay (CVE 73) [10] VC-11: VGS-11: 5 Aug 1942 'VC-11: 1 Mar 1943 VF-21 ...
Before he was old enough to drink, Richard Kolodey had flown 100 missions as a gunner on a Grumman TBM Avenger — a dive bomber — in the South Pacific. By the time he was 21, Kolodey was on his ...
Seven Grumman TBM-3D Avenger bombers of night torpedo squadron VT(N)-90 flying in formation in January 1945. Car part production at the plant ended on December 12, 1941, and one month later the factory became a unit of Eastern Aircraft, one of five former General Motors plants in the area which was shifted to the war effort and used to construct the TBM variants of the Grumman TBF Avenger ...
The primary aircraft stationed at Naval Air Station Grosse Ile during the war years were Consolidated PBY Catalina, Vought F4U Corsairs, Curtiss SB2C Helldivers, and Grumman TBM Avengers. [21] Training was conducted using SNJ, and Boeing Stearman. [22]