The Grumman TBF Avenger (designated TBM [1] for aircraft manufactured by General Motors) is an American World War II-era torpedo bomber developed initially for the United States Navy and Marine Corps, and eventually used by several air and naval aviation services around the world.

The Grumman TBF Avenger is the well-remembered, massive WW2 US Navy torpedo bomber of the USN. It was also at the time the largest and heaviest single-engine aircraft of the war. It forged an enviable reputation as the main stick of the fleet carrier force in 1942-45, insturmental in the Pacific Campaign.

Aug 27, 2021 · Grumman’s Avenger torpedo bomber—the biggest single-engine airplane of World War II and the last of its breed—made a huge contribution to Allied victory. Two General Motors–built TBM-3Es from the National Museum of World War II Aviation fly near the museum’s base in Colorado Springs, Colo. (Paul Bowen Photography)

Grumman TBF Avenger (General Motors TBM) was an American three-place torpedo bomber. The TBF Avenger entered U.S. Navy service in May 1942, and first saw action during the Battle of Midway with VT-8. General Specifications. Type: Three-seat torpedo-bomber. Wings.

The TBF-1C entered production in the summer of 1943, with Eastern building it as the "TBM-1C". The enhanced armament proved particularly useful in suppressing defensive fire on naval targets. The TBF-1C was the last version of the Avenger actually manufactured by Grumman, with 764 built; in late 1943, Eastern took up all Avenger production so ...

Sep 2, 2024 · This was a licensed variant of the Grumman TBF-1C Avenger, built by the General Motors Corporation Eastern Aircraft Division at Linden, New Jersey. The Avenger was designed by Robert Leicester Hall, Chief Engineer and Test Pilot for the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, Bethpage, New York.

The TBF-1C deleted the nose-mounted machine gun and, instead, mounted one 50 caliber weapon in each wing. This variant was plumbed to carry up to 391 gallons of additional fuel in auxiliary fuel tanks. Grumman built 764, while GM built 2,332 of their virtually identical TBM-1C.

At 2145 hours local time, the TBM-1C Avenger aircraft flown by Ensign Frederick Moore sighted the surfaced U-543 off the coast of Africa between the Canary and the Cape Verde Islands. U-543 fired on the airplane and landed three hits from her 20mm guns.

Jul 4, 2016 · After some research and calculations – plus some high-tech sonar – the team determined the aircraft was a three-man TBM-1C Avenger that had crashed during a bombing run in July 1944.

Jan 22, 2013 · Up to December 1943 Grumman built two thousands two hundred and ninety-three TBF-1/1C Avengers, including two original prototypes, one XTBF-2 and one XTBF-3. Four hundred of them were supplied to the Royal Navy as Avenger Mk I s (= TBF-1B ) and sixty-three to the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF).