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.)
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.)
TBM Avengers — of VT-4 from USS Essex (CV-9) — fly in formation, January 1945. (U.S. National Archives Photograph.)