In my recent articles on the U.S. Navy’s legendary Iowa-class battleships, I noted that these ships never did engage in any fights with enemy battleships. Armchair admirals thus have to settle for ...

Notably, a future President of the United States would pilot the Avenger. The Grumman TBF Avenger was an American torpedo bomber that was given a remarkable trial by fire: the Battle of Midway.

The Grumman TBF Avenger was introduced as the U.S. Navy's advanced carrier-based torpedo bomber in 1941, replacing the obsolete TBD Devastator and quickly entering mass production for World War II.

A team of scientists and archaeological explorers relocated and documented the site of a Grumman TBF Avenger off Oahu, Hawaii 77 years after it was lost. The site is believed to be associated with ...

Click to open image viewer. During the late 1930s the U.S. Navy began to modernize its fleet of carrier aircraft. By the end of the decade, all metal monoplane fighters, dive bombers and torpedo ...

Its ungainly size and appearance may have gained it the nickname of the “turkey,” but in reality, the Grumman TBF Avenger was anything but. Forged in the fires of World War 2, this iconic torpedo ...

The re-discovery, identification and documentation of Grumman TBF Avenger’s wreck, lying off the coast of Bambalapitiya, by underwater explorers- Dharshana Jayawardena, Keerthi Karunaratne and Manjula ...

Click to open image viewer. During the late 1930s the U.S. Navy began to modernize its fleet of carrier aircraft. By the end of the decade, all metal monoplane fighters, dive bombers and torpedo ...