Een Grumman TBF Avenger (USA), torpedovliegtuig voor vliegtuigschepen. 'U.S.

Een Grumman TBF Avenger (USA), torpedovliegtuig voor vliegtuigschepen. 'U.S. bomber surveys damage to Japanese base in Marianas. A U.S. Navy Avenger torpedo bomber soars above Japanese-held Tinian Island in the Marianas to survey the damage inflicted upon the enemy base where installations are burning fiercely after an attack by carrier-based planes of a U.S. Navy task force. During the attack on three Japanese bases in the Mariana Islands of the Western Pacific, the American planes sank two Japanese ships and damaged nine others. A total of 135 enemy aircraft was destroyed in the action, against an American loss of six planes.'