The Avenger was designed to replace the Navy’s primary torpedo bomber of the 1930s, the Douglas TBD Devastator, which by 1939 ...

In January 1942 the first production TBF-1 joined the fleet and the Avenger quickly went into mass production. During the first half of 1942, 145 TBFs were delivered. A U.S. Navy Grumman TBM-3W ...

The TBF Avenger made her maiden flight on Aug. 7, 1941, and officially entered into operational service with the U.S. Navy in January 1942. The plane was manufactured by the Grumman Corporation ...

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 ...

Grumman TBF Avenger ★ The Grumman TBF, or TBM if one of the 7,546 built by General Motors’ Eastern Division, was a three-seat sub stalker and torpedo bomber that scored a big victory in the ...

Back when it was still the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp., that storied Bethpage facility built the Grumman TBF Avenger, a World War II torpedo bomber that first saw action in the Battle of ...

The wreck of a U.S. World War II aircraft has been revealed in stunning detail 77 years after it was lost off Oahu, Hawaii. Experts from Project Recover and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography ...

The Grumman TBF Avenger — designated as “TBM” for planes manufactured by General Motors — is a torpedo bomber developed for the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps for use during World War II.