The Douglas TBD Devastator was an American torpedo bomber of the United States Navy. Ordered in 1934, it first flew in 1935 and entered service in 1937...

Copper Three Busy Debras, an American comedy television series Douglas TBD Devastator, a WWII torpedo aircraft Torpedo boat destroyer, the forerunner...

faster and more capable than its Allied counterparts, the American Douglas TBD Devastator monoplane (the U.S. Navy's first all-metal, carrier-borne monoplane...

Commander) George Henry Gay Jr. (March 8, 1917 – October 21, 1994) was a Douglas TBD Devastator pilot in United States Navy Torpedo Squadron 8 operating from the...

Dixon, bombardier Tony Pastula and radioman Gene Aldrich, flying a Douglas TBD Devastator torpedo bomber from the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, encounter...

1942 was the Douglas TBD Devastator, first flown in 1935 and embarked on carriers of the Pacific Fleet in 1937. On 7 May 1942, Devastators sank the Japanese...

with Douglas SBD-2 Dauntless dive bombers, Fighting Six (VF-6) with Grumman F4F-3 Wildcat fighters, and Torpedo Six (VT-6) with Douglas TBD Devastator torpedo...

designed "pattern camouflage" schemes for US Navy aircraft such as the Douglas TBD Devastator and the Brewster F2A Buffalo to make it difficult for the enemy...

both the new, high-performing Grumman TBF Avenger and the obsolete Douglas TBD Devastator were slaughtered as they tried to deliver their torpedoes at Midway...

came during the Battle of Midway on 4 June 1942. Flying obsolete Douglas TBD Devastators, all of Lieutenant Commander John C. Waldron's fifteen planes were...

Dauntless (1938) Douglas XT-30 Douglas T2D (1927) Douglas XT3D (1931) Douglas TBD Devastator (1935) Douglas XTB2D Skypirate (1945) Douglas World Cruiser...

the National Naval Aviation Museum is the Douglas TBD Devastator. The firm located one of these aircraft, TBD-1 BuNo.0377, lost off the San Diego coast...

people gather each year. Douglas A-1 Skyraider Douglas A-3 Skywarrior Douglas A-4 Skyhawk Douglas SBD Dauntless Douglas TBD Devastator (replica) Grumman A-6...

R5D - Transport Douglas SBD Dauntless - Carrier-based dive bomber Douglas TBD Devastator - Carrier-based torpedo bomber Fairchild JK - Liaison Fairchild...

1949 342 Curtiss SBC Helldiver dive bomber 1935 retired 1943 257 Douglas TBD Devastator torpedo bomber 1935 retired 1944 130 Northrop A-17 attack bomber...

Fairey Swordfish Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Douglas TBD Devastator Fieseler Fi 167 Nakajima B5N Related lists List of aircraft of World...

Dauntless scout bombers (Lt. Cmdr. William O. Burch, Jr.) VT-5: 13 TBD Devastator torpedo bombers (Lt. Cmdr. Joe Taylor) Lexington (Capt. Frederick C...

on 12 October 2019. Retrieved 23 April 2020. Blair 1975, p. 238 "Douglas TBD Devastator Torpedo Bomber (1937)". Military Factory. Archived from the original...

Douglas TBD Devastator making a practice drop with a Mark 13 torpedo, October 20, 1941...

carrier Shoho and damaged the fleet carrier Shokaku together with Douglas TBD Devastator torpedo bombers. On 5 April 1942, the heavy cruisers HMS Cornwall...

variants of Bristol Beaufort Douglas C-47 Skytrain Douglas DC-3 Douglas DB-7 – early variants only Douglas TBD Devastator FFVS J 22 – "emergency fighter";...

the first airborne torpedo attack in U.S. naval history. His nine Douglas TBD Devastator torpedo bombers attacked Japanese shipping at Kwajalein Atoll in...

modified after the war, it remained in use until the 1960s. The Douglas TBD Devastator, the U.S. Navy's main torpedo bomber introduced in 1935, was obsolete...

Grumman TBF Avenger could mount the Norden, like the preceding Douglas TBD Devastator, but combat use was disappointing and eventually described as "hopeless"...

Lexington- 35 Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers, 12 Douglas TBD Devastator torpedo bombers, 19 Grumman F4F-3 Wildcat fighters; Yorktown- 35 SBD, 10 TBD, 17 F4F-3...

(sunk) 25 Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat, fighters 37 Douglas SBD-3 Dauntless, dive bombers 15 Douglas TBD-1 Devastator, torpedo bombers (13 lost) Task Force 16:...

and cancelled. In 1939, Douglas designers Ed Heinemann and Bob Donovan began work on a VTB Proposal to replace the TBD Devastator torpedo bomber. In 1942...

Douglas TBD Devastator of VT-6 from the carrier USS Enterprise over Wake Island...

consisted of 13 Grumman F4F Wildcat fighters, 42 Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers, and 11 Douglas TBD Devastator torpedo bombers. The ship also carried 14...

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