Photograph of a General Motors TBM Avenger aircraft on final approach to the USS Essex (CV-9), circa 1944-1945. One of the landing gear wheels is still in the up position.Inscription on verso: "38 / TBM landing with one wheel up / E18."Part of a…
Photograph of a General Motors TBM Avenger aircraft taking off from the USS Essex (CV-9), circa 1944-1945. The caption is backwards on the album page.Caption on album page: "Avenger (TBM) leaving."Part of a disassembled album containing materials…
Photograph of a General Motors TBM Avenger aircraft taking off from the USS Essex (CV-9), circa 1944.Inscription on verso: "Torpedo plane (TBM) leaving Essex -- 1944 / E02."Caption on album page: "Torpedo plane (TBM) leaving Essex -- 1944."Part of a…
Photograph of a General Motors TBM Avenger aircraft taking off from the USS Essex (CV-9), circa 1944-1945.Inscription on verso: "Torpedo plane taking off calm sea / E13."Caption on album page: "Torpedo plane taking off -- Calm sea."Part of a…
Photograph of a General Motors TBM Avenger aircraft (tail number 309, designation "Georgia Peach") of Air Group 83, U.S. Navy, in flight, circa 1945.
Caption: "'Georgia Peach', torpedo bomber of Air Group 83 / W. Pacific, 1945."
Photograph of a U.S. Navy General Motors TBM-3 Avenger aircraft (fuselage designation 417, nose designation "Satan's Helper") in flight, circa 1944-1945. The aircraft's nose art depicts a woman in a martini glass.