Sailors direct a rocket-armed TBM Avenger on the flight deck of USS Cape Gloucester (CVE-109) during operations off Kyushu, Japan in September 1945. (U.S. Marine Corps Photograph.) (U.S. Marine Corps Photograph.)
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During the Marianas Operation, TBM Avenger bombers prepare to take off from the Independence-class light aircraft carrier USS Monterey (CVL-26) to attack targets on Tinian, June 1944. (Official U.S. Navy Photograph.)
Profile view of a Grumman TBF-1C Avenger from the No. 30 Squadron, Royal New Zealand Air Force parked on the Turtle Bay strip at Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides in February 1944. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
A U.S. Marine Corps Grumman TBM-3 Avenger from Marine Torpedo Bomber Squadron VMTB-332 drops supplies during close air support training at Marine Corps Air Station Ewa in 1945. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
A Grumman TBF-1 Avenger is guided to a landing on the USS Card (ACV-11) by a Landing Signal Officer in 1943. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
Color photograph of a U.S. Navy Grumman TBF-1 Avenger torpedo bomber waiting to takeoff from the flight deck of the Essex-class aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-10) in 1943. (Official U.S. Navy Photograph.)
A Grumman TBF-1 Avenger from Torpedo Squadron Eight (VT-8) photographed on Midway Island in June 1942 after VT-8’s attack on the Japanese fleet. (Official U.S. Navy Photograph.)
A plane captain inspects the landing gear of a Grumman TBF Avenger on the flight deck of a training escort carrier, circa 1943. (U.S. Navy Photo/National Archives.)
In port, a TBF Avenger is hoisted aboard the escort carrier USS Santee. (U.S. National Archives and Records Photograph.)
The clean lines of a TBM-1C Avenger with wing-mounted radar pod are shown to good effect at NATC Patuxent River, Maryland, July 1944. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)