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| TBM-3 Avenger from Torpedo Squadron VT-27 from the aircraft carrier USS Independence flying over the Japanese battleship Nagato at Yokosuka, Japan, August-September 1945. |
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| Two TBM-3 aircraft of US Navy squadron VT-26 at Matsuyama Airfield, Taihoku (now Taipei), Taiwan, early September 1945. |
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| USMC Major Dick Johnson’s TBM-3 Avenger aircraft at Matsuyama Airfield, Taiwan, 5 September 1945; Johnson was the first US airman to arrive on Taiwan at the end of the war. |
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| USMC Major Dick Johnson’s TBM-3 Avenger aircraft at Matsuyama Airfield, Taiwan, 5 September 1945. |
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| Surplus US carrier aircraft stored for demobilization and prepared for scrapping, Iroquois Point, Oahu, Hawaii, October 1945. |
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| TBF Avenger. |
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| TBF Avenger taxiing accident. |
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| TBF Avenger landing. |
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| TBF-1C Avengers and Mk XIII torpedo. |
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| TBF(N) Avenger. |
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| TBF Avengers. |
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| XTBF-1 Avenger mock-up, 1940. |
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| XTBF-1 Avenger mock-up, 1940. |
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| XTBF-1 Avenger mock-up, 1940. |
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| Instrument panel XTBF-1 Avenger mock-up, 1940. |
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| XTBF-1 Avenger mock-up, 1940. |
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| XTBF-1 Avenger mock-up, 1940. |
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| XTBF-1 Avenger mock-up with a Oscar Olsen turret. |
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| TBF Avengers. |
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| TBF Avenger. |
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| TBF Avenger. |
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| XTBF-1 Avenger bombardier position. |
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| TBF Avenger. |
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| TBF Avenger. |
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| TBF Avenger. |
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| TBF-1 Avenger. |
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| TBF-1 outer wing panels. |
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| TBF-1 Avenger fuselage section construction. |
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| TBF-1 Avenger fuselage construction. |
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| TBF-1 Avenger turret frame construction. |
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| TBF-1 Avenger with its turret on a bench. |
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| TBF-1 Avenger aileron under construction in its jig. |
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| TBF-1 Avenger wing trailing edge under construction. |
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| TBF-1 Avenger wing leading edge under construction. |
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| XTBF-1 Avenger outside the Grumman plant. |
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| Testing of the Grumman XTBF-1 Avenger bomb bay hoists. |
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| XTBF-1 Avenger. |
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| XTBF-1 Avenger cockpit instrument panel. |
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| XTBF-1 Avenger fuselage construction jig. |
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| XTBF-1 Avenger half wing fold model for the wind tunnel. |
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| XTBF-1 Avenger wooden model with added dorsal fin. |
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| Grumman XTBF Avenger model. |
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| Ordnancemen on board the USS San Jacinto CVL-30 prepare to load a modified Mk 13 torpedo in the bomb bay of a TBM Avenger during the 25 October 1944 Battle off Cape Engaño. The cylindrical “pickle barrel” and box tail helped turn the torpedo into an effective weapon. |
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| TBF-1/TBM-1 Avenger. |