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	Grumman TBF/TBM "Avenger"
		First made by Grumman, most of the 9,836 Avengers built were produced for the United States by General Motors, which had essentially ceased automobile production with the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.
		The Grumman TBF "Avenger" made its debut in combat during the same event in which the TBD left the scene; in June 1942, during the battle of Midway.
		The last Avenger was the XTBM-4, in which the wings and fuselage were reinforced, although it never saw active duty.
	www.qsl.net /n3yqh/WWII/avenger.htm (623 words)

	Grumman TBF-1
		he Grumman TBF-1 was lighter, faster, and had more range than the Vought entry, however, one of the main reasons for the selection of the TBF was the ability of Grumman to produce the airplanes.
		The Avenger had always been slightly underpowered and the new engine was an attempt to correct this deficiency.
		he Avenger is most often thought of as a torpedo bomber, but because of the unreliability of American torpedoes and the danger of this type of attack, it was more often equipped as a bomber.
	www.nasm.si.edu /research/aero/aircraft/grumman_tbf.htm (1777 words)

	Warbird Depot - Attack > CAF Missouri Wing's Grumman TBM-3E Avenger
		The Avenger could carry 2000 pounds of bombs or one 2200 pound torpedo, either two 58 or 110 gallon drop tanks (depending on the mission), eight 5 inch high velocity rockets and bomb racks outboard of the rockets that could each carry a 500lb bomb or the gun packs with two.50 cal guns each.
		Avengers were also equipped with two forward firing.50 caliber machine guns and one.50 caliber machine gun in a turret aft of the canopy.
		The Avenger could also be equipped with three bombay fuel tank sizes, a 1/2 size self sealing bombay tank, which still allowed the carriage of 1000lbs of internal bombs and two full size tanks, one self sealing and one not.
	www.warbirddepot.com /aircraft_attack_tbm-cafmo.asp (600 words)

	Science Fair Projects - TBF Avenger
		The Grumman TBF Avenger (designated TBM for aircraft manufactured by General Motors) was an American torpedo bomber, developed initially for the United States Navy and Marine Corps and used by a large number of air forces around the world.
		On the afternoon of December 7, 1941, Grumman held a ceremony to open a new manufacturing plant and display the new TBF to the public.
		The Avenger was also used by the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm where it was initially known as the "Tarpon" however this name was later discontinued and the Avenger name used instead.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Grumman_Avenger (1315 words)

	NZFPM \|Grumman TBM3E Avenger
		Grumman TBM3E Avenger Chief torpedo-bomber of the Pacific War in 1942-45, the Avenger typifies carrier-based aircraft produced by Grumman - featuring generous wings, amiable handling and such strength that the company was colloquially known as "The Iron Works".
		In all, 48 Avengers were allocated to the RNZAF, but before the war ended over half of these were handed over to either the US Navy or the Royal Navy’s Pacific Fleet, both of which were suffering from aircraft shortages.
		The Air Board agreed and allocated a Grumman Avenger aircraft, with a specially fitted auxilliary petrol tank converted into a hopper which was installed in the bomb bay.
	www.nzfpm.co.nz /article.asp?id=tbm3e (625 words)

	Grumman Avenger Mk II - The Air Combat Wiki
		Avenger squadrons operated primarily from land bases and escort carriers, such as those escorting the PQ convoys to Murmansk.
		The largest deployment of Avengers occurred in early 1944 when they took part in "Operation Channel Stop", which was intended to deny the use of the English Channel to all enemy shipping.
		Avengers also served with the carrier Formidable in suppressing Japanese airfields on Formosa in support of the US Marine landings on Okinawa.
	wikipedia.ketsujin.com /index.php/Grumman_Avenger_Mk_II (559 words)

	TBF/TBM Avenger
		Grumman developed a unique wing-folding mechanism for the TBF and F6F, which tucked the wings flat against the fuselage, for the most compact storage possible.
		On the afternoon of December 7, 1941, Grumman held a ceremony to open its new Plant 2 in Bethpage and display the new torpedo bomber to the public.
		Avengers participated in the historic raid Feb. 16 raid on Truk.
	www.acepilots.com /planes/avenger.html (4364 words)

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		Many Avengers were manufactured by General Motors Eastern Aircraft Division under the designation TBM Avenger to allow Grumman to focus on the manufacturing of Hellcats.
		Grumman designed the Avenger as a torpedo bomber, but the plane could carry bombs in the internal bomb bay or a mixed load of depth charges and 5" rockets under the wings.
		Avengers were superb sub hunters and both the U.S Navy and Royal Navy used the plane to hunt German submarines which preyed upon Allied shipping in the North Atlantic and Arctic Ocean.
	www.americanairpowermuseum.com /htm/avenger.htm (777 words)

	Grumman Memorial Park History Center
		Grumman Memorial Park also supported this event by loaning its tow bar in the event the jets need to be repositioned.
		On hand to welcome them were Joe Wilkers and Bob Klein of Northrop Grumman, Barbara Nilson, President of the Grumman Retiree Club, along with the officers and men of VF-31 "Tomcatters", to which the jet was assigned and who drove to Long Island from Virginia on their own.
		At the conclusion of the formal ceremony, the aircraft was signed for by Barbara Nilson on behalf of the Grumman Retiree Club, to whom the jet is officially on loan to.
	www.grummanpark.org /history.htm (3266 words)

	Grumman TBF / TBM Avenger - Carrier Based Torpedo Bomber
		Grumman stayed with their unique folding wing design which when folded allowed the wings to rest parallel to the fuselage which made for more compact storage of the aircraft allowing more of them to be carried in the hanger deck area of the US Carrier fleet.
		Because the Grumman factory was busy building the F6F-3 Hellcat fighter aircraft, General Motors was contracted to produce Avengers in September 1942 at their Eastern Aircraft division.
		The Avenger had fully replaced the aging Douglas Devastator torpedo bomber and by August 1942 the Avenger was the only torpedo bomber in service aboard the US aircraft carrier fleet.
	www.vf31.com /aircraft/avenger.html (345 words)

	TBF Avenger
		Six Avengers of VT-8, having missed their carrier, had been ferried up to Midway and attacked the IJN carriers, with only one plane surviving the effort.
		The design that led to the Avenger had been ordered by the Navy on the assumption, which was to prove correct, that 900 PS as in the Devastator would not suffice to propel a torpedo bomber with heavy load.
		Avengers were the first U.S. carrier planes to receive bombardment radars, making good use of the new device in an attack by night on Truk.
	www.microworks.net /pacific/aviation/tbf_avenger.htm (641 words)

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		Avengers become the standard US Navy torpedo bomber during most of World War II, operating from aircraft carriers and shore bases, mostly in the Pacific theatre.
		Both squadrons were formed in Gisborne to train on the new Grumman Avenger torpedo bombers for operations in the South Pacific islands.
		NZ2505 was the first Avenger flown by the RNZAF and was used by 30 and 31 Squadrons during 1943 and 1944 for training in Gisborne.
	homepages.ihug.co.nz /~av8or/GAPS/avenger_right.html (705 words)

	Trumpeter 1/32 TBF-1C Avenger
		Thus, when the Avenger became available for British use through Lend-Lease, their Lordships at the Admiralty were quick to become the second-largest operator of the Avenger during the war, using 1,000 of them.
		The Avenger Is and IIs formed the heart of the FAA strike forces when flown against Japanese airfields on Formosa and the Sakishima Gunto, contributing to the isolation of the Okinawa battlefield.
		Avengers were among the first British aircraft to fly over Tokyo and they were used continuously for strikes over the homeland up to the Japanese surrender.
	www.modelingmadness.com /reviews/allies/us/tc/cleavertbf.htm (3398 words)

	TBF Avenger - Japan
		The Grumman TBF Avenger (designated TBM for aircraft manufactured by General Motors) was an American torpedo bomber, developed initially for the United States Navy and Marine Corps and used by a large number of air forces around the world.
		Grumman's first torpedo bomber was the heaviest single-engine plane of WWII, and it was the first to feature a new wing-folding mechanism (designed by Grumman) intended to maximize storage space on an aircraft carrier; the F6F Hellcat (also manufactured by Grumman) would employ the same mechanism.
		In 1945 Avengers were involved in pioneering trials of aerial topdressing in New Zealand that led to the establishment of an industry which markedly increased food production and efficiency in farming worldwide.
	tbf-avenger.zdnet.co.za /zdnet/TBF_Avenger (2248 words)

	Avenger: Grumman Company
		The Avenger was a sophisticated torpedo bomber crewed by a pilot, radioman and gunner and was used to attack enemy ships by launching torpedoes.
		Grumman designed the Avenger as a torpedo bomber, but the plane could carry bombs in the internal bomb bay or a mixed load of depth charges and 5" rockets under the wings.
		Avengers were superb sub hunters and both the U.S Navy and Royal Navy used the plane to hunt German submarines which preyed upon Allied shipping in the North Atlantic and Arctic Ocean.
	www.lycos.com /info/avenger--grumman-company.html (490 words)

	Trumpeter 1/32 TBF-1C Avenger
		Thus, when the Avenger became available for British use through Lend-Lease, their Lordships at the Admiralty were quick to become the second-largest operator of the Avenger during the war, using 1,000 of them.
		The Avenger Is and IIs formed the heart of the FAA strike forces when flown against Japanese airfields on Formosa and the Sakishima Gunto, contributing to the isolation of the Okinawa battlefield.
		Avengers were among the first British aircraft to fly over Tokyo and they were used continuously for strikes over the homeland up to the Japanese surrender.
	modelingmadness.com /reviews/allies/us/tc/cleavertbf.htm (3398 words)

	Flight 19 Information
		The board of enquiry concluded that the Avengers became lost and ditched into very rough seas after running out of fuel, and that the Mariner exploded in mid-air, probably when fuel fumes were ignited.
		In 1981 the wreckage of five Avengers was discovered off the coast of Florida, but it was found later from serial numbers on engine blocks that they were not Flight 19.
		In 1986, the wreckage of another Avenger was found off the Florida coast during the search for the wreckage of the Space Shuttle Challenger.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Flight_19 (1376 words)

	Amazon.fr : Grumman Tbm Avenger Pilot's Flight Manual: Livres en anglais: Periscope Film Com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		One of the most legendary naval aircraft of WWII, the Grumman TBF Avenger (and the General Motors-produced TBM) saw action in most of the major battles in the Pacific including Midway and Leyte Gulf.
		On the afternoon of December 7, 1941, Grumman Aircraft first displayed the new TBF to the public.
		The first major "prize" for the TBFs (which had been assigned the name "Avenger" in October 1941, before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor) was at the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal in November 1942, when Marine Corps and Navy Avengers helped sink the battleship Hiei.
	www.amazon.fr /Grumman-Avenger-Pilots-Flight-Manual/dp/1411693876 (656 words)

	tbm avengers information -- tbm avengers (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In April during the deployment three of the squadron's aircraft (Grumman TBM-3W Avengers) were equipped as ASW planes, giving the squadron an ASW mission as well as attack.
		Watch old warbirds from B-17ís, TBM Avengers, P-51ís to some of the most modern jet aircraft in the world strut their stuff in the sky all day long.
		Avenger TBM waterbombing Canada 2000 Also see the New Brunswick Department of Natural Resources and Energy website on TBM Avengers fighting New Brunswick forest fires and the website TBM Avengers...
	www.fuscavengers.info /tbmavengers (1793 words)

	HOME OF M.A.T.S. - The most comprehensive Grumman F-14 Reference Work - by Torsten Anft!
		The Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation was filed as a business in New York on 5 December 1929, and opened its doors for business on 2 January 1930.
		Leroy R. Grumman, along with his partners: Leon A. Swirbul, E. Clint Towl, William T. Schwendler, and Ed Poor are considered the founders of the company.
		As production of Grumman aircraft increased, a final move was made to what was the potato fields at Bethpage in 1936.
	www.topedge.com /panels/aircraft/sites/mats/grumman-history.htm (458 words)

	Norden bombsight on Grumman Avengers - Tanknet
		In great majority of cases when Avengers used glide or masthead tactics to bomb the radioman set the "bombing board", arming and intervalometer, and the pilot released.
		again the Midway Avengers**, two had dedicated navigators added on to compensate incomplete training for the long ferry flight to Midway; and observors could fly along, for example a Norwegian liason officer flew as 4th man with a TBF in the Ranger's raid on German shipping in Norway in 1943.
		Can't speak for the Avenger, but they had Hellcats with radar in the Pacific, operated by the pilot alone.
	63.99.108.76 /forums/index.php?showtopic=15322 (828 words)

	Letter (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The first of your Avengers were completed thanks to a foresighted building program in time to hit the hapanese fleet at Midway in 1942.
		Although other planes have come and gone, the Avenger now being manufactured to Grumman patterns by General Motors is still the Navy's Number One torpedo bomber, made doubly versatile by the skill and daring of the Navy and Marine crews who fly it.
		Grumman Aircraft has been a mainstay of the Navy's carrier forces since your earliest days, and you have never failed us.
	www.bethpagecommunity.com /Grumman/secnavyletter.htm (435 words)

	The Grumman Avenger TBF & TBM WWII US Navy Torpedo bomber.
		Despite this sad beginning, the Avenger was destined to become the Navy's standard torpedo-bomber throughout World War II and to remain in operational Fleet service in a variety of roles until 1954.
		the Avenger had thoroughly redeemed itself and was established as a capable, dependable and troublefree warplane, the combination of inherent structural ruggedness and effective defensive armament endowing it with a good chance of survival in fulfilling a mission for which the survivability rate was notoriously low.
		Indeed, at first sight the Avenger could well have been a scaled-up Wildcat, but the resemblance had to be confined to external contour owing to its sheer size and r6le, and I hardly expected this torpedo-bomber to offer in the air any of the exhilaration that I had experienced with its smaller stablemate.
	www.fiddlersgreen.net /AC/aircraft/Grumman-Avenger/aveng_info/avenge_info.htm (3326 words)

	The Book of THoTH (Leaves of Wisdom) - Flight 19
		The Berlitz TBM Avenger bombers were built to float for long periods the basic facts of Berlitz's version of the story are accurate but some important details are missing from the story.
		Especially with novice pilots at the helm, an Avenger would be very difficult to land on calm water, let alone the perilous rough seas in the Bermuda Triangle.
		The board of enquiry concluded that the Avengers became lost and ditched into very rough seas after running out of fuel, and that the Mariner exploded in mid-air, probably when fuel fumes were ignited.
	www.book-of-thoth.com /thebook/index.php/Flight_19 (1421 words)

	HOME OF M.A.T.S. - The most comprehensive Grumman F-14 Reference Work - by Torsten Anft!
		The Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation was filed as a business in New York on 5 December 1929, and opened its doors for business on 2 January 1930.
		Leroy R. Grumman, along with his partners: Leon A. Swirbul, E. Clint Towl, William T. Schwendler, and Ed Poor are considered the founders of the company.
		After W.W.II, with the dawn of the jet age, Grumman acquired use of the Navy facility in Calverton, Long Island in 1952 to manufacture and test jets.
	www.anft.net /f-14/grumman-history.htm (458 words)

	TBM Avenger
		The Avenger was Grumman's first torpedo aircraft, and its design had much in common with that of the Company's fighters - as its chunky and robust appearance testifies.
		The Avenger rapidly displaced the obsolete Devastator aboard US carriers, and from the Guadalcanal landings in August 1942 until the end of the PacificWar it remained the only shipboard torpedo aircraft of the US Navy.
		Later in the battle Avengers played an heroic and vital role in the desperate defence of the US escort carrier group "Taffy 3" which unexpectedly came under surface attack from the main Japanese force off Samar.
	www.angelfire.com /space/grumman/aircraft/avenger.html (612 words)

	avenger1
		Some defining features of the TBF-1 were the single.30 calibre machine gun mounted on the top right side of the cowling and the antenna mast which was mounted at a slight rearward angle just aft of the pilot's cockpit and mounted on the front of the turnover pylon.
		Because of increased demand for the Avenger, production facilities at Grumman were over- stretched and the Eastern Aircraft division of General Motors began production of exact copies of the TBF-1 alongside the Grumman Wildcat, which it was already producing.
		Although the RNZAF was originally allocated 63 aircraft from Grumman production in 1943, only 48 were ever delivered, with the first six (NZ2501 to NZ2506) TBF-1’s delivered on the "William Keith" in September, 1943.
	rnzaf.hobbyvista.com /avenger1.html (762 words)

	The heroes of the sky
		On September 10, 1948, the first hopper of a Grumman Avenger was filled with a ton of superphosphate for a ground load test.
		The spare Grumman Avenger was flown to Masterton, but on May 4 one of the hoppers didn't open and it took two hours to cure the problem.
		The two Grumman Avengers were organised so that while one was spreading fertiliser on the farm, the other was waiting at Masterton for the hopper to be filled.
	wairarapa.co.nz /times-age/weekly/topdress.html (2472 words)

	Warbird Alley: Grumman / General Motors / Eastern TBF Avenger
		The Avenger's torpedo-delivery capability had a huge impact on the Japanese fleet during the war, and its rugged simplicity made it highly resistant to enemy air defenses.
		These aircraft were designated the Avenger AS Mk IV or AS Mk V, and were used in the ASW role until the introduction of the Fairey Gannet in 1955.
		Avengers were also exported under MDAP to France, Japan, Canada, and the Netherlands.
	www.warbirdalley.com /tbf.htm (511 words)

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