282 items in this album on 15 pages.
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Escort carrier USS Bogue in Measure 32/Design 4A paint steaming off Quonset Point, Rhode Island, United States, Feb 1945. Note TBM Avengers on deck. | TBM Avengers and SB2C Helldivers flying from the carrier Bunker Hill, western Pacific, Feb 1945 | Essex-class carrier USS Bon Homme Richard cruising in the Gulf of Paria between Trinidad and Venezuela on her shakedown cruise, 7 Feb 1945. Note TBM Avenger on her deck and Coast Guard guard boat alongside | TBM-3 Avenger of VT-82 flying from the carrier Bennington struggles to remain airborne after receiving heavy damage in a mid-air collision with another Avenger over Chi Chi Jima, 18 Feb 1945. |
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A 37mm gun on Iwo Jima beach with Mount Suribachi in background, 20 Feb 1945; note the TBM Avenger flying overhead | TBM-3 Avenger of Marine Torpedo Squadron 242 at Motoyama #2 airstrip, Iwo Jima preparing for Anti-Submarine Patrol, Feb-Mar 1945 | US Navy TBM-3 Avenger over Iwo Jima, Japan, Mar 1945; note Mount Suribachi in center of photo and Allied ships to northwest (left) | USS Hornet off Okinawa, Japan, 27 Mar 1945; note various aircraft on the flight deck |
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A TBM Avenger trailing smoke returning to the carrier USS Essex after being damaged by Japanese anti-aircraft fire during a strike on Minami Daito Jima in the Okinawa Operation, 28 Mar 1945. | 3 TBM-1C Avengers and 2 FM-2 Wildcats of Composite Squadron 69 readying for take-off from escort carrier USS Mission Bay on an anti-submarine patrol in the Atlantic, spring 1945. | Aerial view of USS Makin Island off Okinawa, Japan, 1945; note FM-2 Wildcat and TBM Avenger aircraft on the flight deck | Australian Destroyer HMAS Nizam alongside carrier USS Shangri-La for refueling, April 1945. Note Corsairs of Air Group 85 spotted on the flight deck. |
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Fletcher-class destroyer USS Harrison steaming alongside carrier USS Bennington as Bennington’s TBM Avengers run up their engines, early 1945 in the Western Pacific. | TBM-3 Avenger flying over Mt Suribachi on Iwo Jima after US forces had fully occupied the island, Mar-Apr 1945. Note storage tanks, tents, and other improvements set up by US forces. | F4U Corsairs and TBM Avengers of Air Group 6 aboard USS Hancock off Okinawa, Japan, 2 Apr 1945 | Six TBM-3 Avengers of Torpedo Squadron 6 flying from the carrier Hancock during a raid on Amami-O-Shima in the Okinawa Campaign, 4 Apr 1945. |
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TBM Avenger torpedo planes of Composite Squadron 84 from USS Makin Island flying over Ie Shima, Ryukyu Islands, Japan, 16 Apr 1945 | Aviation Ordinancemen loading a Mark XIII torpedo into the bomb bay of a TBM Avenger aboard USS Bennington, May 1945. Note the torpedo’s plywood drag ring on the nose and wooden tail shroud. | F6F Hellcat fighter coming up on the Number 3 flight deck elevator on USS Yorktown (Essex-class), early 1945. Note TBM-3 Avengers and SB2C Helldivers also on deck. | TBM-3 Avengers with Torpedo Squadron 87 flying from the carrier Ticonderoga, May 1945. |
282 items in this album on 15 pages.