The Grumman TBF Avenger (designated TBM for aircraft manufactured by General Motors) is an American World War II-era torpedo bomber developed initially...
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Retrieved: 17 July 2014. "Grumman TBF Avenger/Bu. 01741." DeLand Naval Air Station Museum. Retrieved: 21 May 2013. "Grumman TBF Avenger/Bu. 05997." Yanks Air...
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replacement for the Grumman A-6 Intruder in the United States Navy and Marine Corps. Its Avenger II name was taken from the Grumman TBF Avenger of World War...
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bomber, the Grumman TBF Avenger. Grumman ranked 22nd among United States corporations in the value of wartime production contracts. Grumman's first jet...
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TBF can refer to: Grumman TBF Avenger, a World War II torpedo bomber tert-Butyl formate, an organic chemical compound with molecular formula C5H10O2 The...
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"The Avengers" Avro Avenger, a British 1920s biplane fighter General Atomics Avenger, an American developmental unmanned combat air vehicle Grumman TBF Avenger...
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A-20 Havoc Douglas B-23 Dragon Grumman F6F Hellcat (XF6F-1 & -2 prototypes only, pre-April 1942) Grumman TBF Avenger Lioré et Olivier LeO 451 Martin...
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Flight 19 (redirect from Everglades TBM Avenger)
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...
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launched all 18 Avengers, escorted by 16 Corsairs. One Avenger crashed on take-off and an American Avenger was shot down over the target; only one small ship...
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withdrawn from frontline service after Midway, being replaced by the Grumman TBF Avenger. The Douglas XTBD-1 was ordered on 30 June 1934 after being one of...
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pilot and enlisted aircrew training (i.e., gunners, radiomen) in Grumman TBF Avenger torpedo bombers flown by carrier-based US Navy flight crews and by...
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(Lt. R. H. Price) VF-25: 24 Grumman F6F Hellcat fighters VF-6: 12 Grumman F6F Hellcat fighters VC-25: 10 Grumman TBF Avenger torpedo bombers Battleship...
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starboard amidships by a torpedo from a Grumman TBF Avenger, also from Intrepid. The Japanese shot down two Avengers. Another eight Helldivers from Intrepid...
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and perhaps more so. For example, both the new, high-performing Grumman TBF Avenger and the obsolete Douglas TBD Devastator were slaughtered as they...
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twelve to fourteen FM-2 Wildcat fighters and an equivalent number of Grumman TBF Avenger torpedo bombers. Yet, the carriers had a top speed of only 18 knots...
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altitude to produce the ideal 22-32 degree water entry angle. For the Grumman TBF Avenger torpedo bomber this meant drop altitudes as high as 800 feet (240 m)...
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Zero fighters already airborne and they were soon followed by 39 Grumman TBF Avenger torpedo bombers, each of which carried a pair of magnetic mines that...
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before she managed to escape. I-368 was detected and attacked by a Grumman TBF Avenger on approaching Iwo Jima on 26 February and was sunk by Mark 24 Mines...
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aircraft at the time; it could carry four times the weapon load of the Grumman TBF Avenger. With only limited support from the US Navy, and facing a recommendation...
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the entire Enterprise air group: Grumman F6F Hellcat fighters, Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers, Grumman TBF Avenger torpedo bombers and 100 pilots....
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The Grumman TB2F was a cancelled twin-engined torpedo bomber project, intended as Grumman's successor to the successful TBF Avenger. However, only a mockup...
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bomber Grumman F4F Wildcat - Fighter Grumman F6F Hellcat - Fighter/night fighter Grumman JRF Goose - Amphibian transport Grumman TBF Avenger - Torpedo...
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At this point, CVG-8 reported 41 F6F-3s of VF-8, 32 SB2C-1Cs of VB-8, 22 TBF-1Cs of VT-8, and a flag F6F-3 on board, along with the four F6F-3Ns. Subsequent...
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Beginning in 1944, Bush served in the Pacific theater, where he flew a Grumman TBF Avenger, a torpedo bomber capable of taking off from aircraft carriers. His...
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PBY-5A Catalinas (Detachments from Patrol Wings 1 and 2, USN) 6 Grumman TBF Avenger (Detachment from VT-8, USS Hornet - Lt. Langdon K. Fieberling†, USN)...
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The Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider is an American strategic bomber in development for the United States Air Force (USAF) by Northrop Grumman. As part of...
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Wolf Douglas XTB2D Skypirate Fairey Gannet Fairey Spearfish Grumman TBF Avenger Grumman S-2 Tracker Nakajima B6N Short Seamew Kowalski 1991, p. 3. Donald...
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TDR-1 would be conducted from either a control aircraft, usually a Grumman TBF Avenger, with the operator viewing a television screen showing the view from...
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demand for production lines. A competitor and contemporary to the Grumman TBF Avenger, both were designed to replace the older TBD Devastator but the Sea...
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The Grumman F6F Hellcat is an American carrier-based fighter aircraft of World War II. Designed to replace the earlier F4F Wildcat and to counter the...
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