GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KJCT) - Breathing new life into a piece of history. Near the Grand Junction Airport, a 1945 torpedo bomber, once used in World War II, is hiding away at the Rocky Mountain Wing ...
DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) – Have you ever wanted to ride in a WWII TBM Avenger torpedo bomber aircraft? The Capital Wing of the Commemorative Air Force (CAF) will offer warbird rides at Grimes Field on ...
A TBM Avenger, the largest and heaviest single-engine bomber of World War II, will visit the Raleigh Executive Jetport in Sanford for one day on April 16. The Capital Wing of the Commemorative Air ...
SEASIDE – Nearly 80 years ago, a Seaside man boarded a World War II-era torpedo bomber for the last time before he was killed in action and lost in the Pacific, but his remains were finally found ...
A flying giant of its day - forgotten by history. The Fokker T.IV was an advanced long-range torpedo bomber when it entered ...
Unlike its namesake, our flying fish was slow and plodding, and it looked downright ungainly, hence its unofficial nickname of “Stringbag,” taken after a style of women’s purse that was popular in ...
LOWER TOWNSHIP — Rio Grande farmer Ed Wuerker was just a boy when World War II torpedo bombers from Naval Air Station Wildwood practiced hitting dummy targets laid out on farm fields.
The last time anyone saw three newly-rediscovered military aircraft, U.S. forces were pummeling Japanese targets in the western Pacific during World War II."Operation Hailstone" in February 1944 was a ...