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A few miles from the sub, Alvin’s cameras also captured the remains of a Grumman TBF Avenger—a World War II-era torpedo bomber that vanished during a training flight in 1950.

The ‘lucky’ bomber that lived to tell the tale—barely In the same area, researchers also located a Grumman TBF Avenger —a torpedo bomber used by the U.S. Navy during and after World War II.

The Avenger was outfitted with a powerful engine, the Wright R-2600-20 Twin Cyclone radial engine, which generated 1,900 horsepower. With the Twin Cyclone engine onboard, the Avenger could achieve ...

The Avenger Came Just in Time for World War II The Avenger was designed to replace the Navy’s primary torpedo bomber of the 1930s, the Douglas TBD Devastator, which by 1939, was already obsolete.

The mission also captured detailed imagery of a U.S. Navy Grumman TBF Avenger torpedo bomber that crashed nearby during a training flight in 1950. “Advanced ocean technology and simple teamwork played ...

Training bomber The expedition also surveyed the nearby wreck of a U.S. Navy Grumman TBF Avenger torpedo bomber, which crashed in the same area when it was being used as a training aircraft in 1950.

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.

He was a part of the 13th Air Force, and they were to cover 24 Douglass SBD Dauntless dive bombers and 24 Grumman TBF Avenger torpedo bombers on a dive-bombing mission.

“I was classified a radio turret gunner and a dive bomber…a Grumman TBF Avenger dive bomber. We used it to carry a 500 pound or 2000 pound bombs to drop bombs on [the Japanese] in the Solomon ...

It was learnt that Classz together with Darrel Fryer and American diver Ulrich Earnst had dived the wreck of Grumman TBF Avenger in the 1990s when the aircraft was intact. “They had even got into the ...