The Avenger Channel at iModeler (43 articles)

The Avenger Channel at iModeler

Grumman TBF (TBM) Avenger

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On This Day…March 16th

by david leigh-smith on March 16, 2019
in News — 14 Comments

On 16th March, 1944, the 332nd Fighter Group (The Tuskegee Airmen) took delivery of three P47s in their base in Sicily to start their transition training from P40s. It was with the Thunderbolts that the air group had orders to paint the tails[...]

TBF-1 Avenger Battle of Midway Diorama (1/48 Accurate Miniatures)

by Michael Rieth on March 15, 2019
in Aviation — 15 Comments

New Member and first post. I got the inspiration to do this diorama from the Osprey Combat Aircraft #16 TBF/TBM Avenger Units of World War 2 by Barrett Tillman. I based my model on the after-action report. Not only did I try to recreate the b[...]

On This Day…March 2nd

by david leigh-smith on March 2, 2019
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Crew of the U-Boat U-50 show off their Iron Crosses On March 2nd, 1940. The crew of the ‘Dreadful’ left the German-administered island of Helgoland (sometimes known as Heligoland), on 6 February 1940, U-50 en route to Scotland on her very firs[...]

On This Day…February 22nd

by david leigh-smith on February 22, 2019
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RAF Air Transport Auxilliary ferry pilot, Veronica, sits in her Spitfire, February 22nd, 1943. ______________ Four caskets containing 22nd Marines, Parry Island, Eniwetok, February 22nd, 1944. _______________ 22nd February 1944. A TBM Av[...]

On This Day…February 18th

by david leigh-smith on February 18, 2019
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Grumman Avenger (VT-82, the ‘Devil’s Diplomats’) shows its mettle as she struggles to return to her carrier, USS Bennington, CV-20. The Avenger collided with another TBM in raids against picket shipping around Chichi Jima (pic 3, below). [...]

On This Day…February 7th

by david leigh-smith on February 7, 2019
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‘Boy Sitting on Sea Mine’, Deal, South Coast of England, 7th February, 1940. Presumably defused and made safe. _______________ Spitfire P9315, RAF Benson No 3 Photo Reconnaissance Unit, Cambridge, England, 7th February 1941. ____________[...]

On This Day…February 3rd

by david leigh-smith on February 3, 2019
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The USS Enterprise CVN-65 was officially decommissioned on February 3rd, 2017. The event was marked with a private celebration on the hangar deck. _______________ Russian soldiers search some of the 200-plus German tanks left in the str[...]

On This Day…January 26th

by david leigh-smith on January 26, 2019
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In 1927 HMS ‘M2’ became the first undersea aircraft carrier - a submarine carrying a small Parnal ‘Peto’ two-seater seaplane (below) in a watertight hangar. The seaplane, which had folding wings, was launched by catapult off a runway on the de[...]

On This Day…January 24th

by david leigh-smith on January 24, 2019
in News — 15 Comments

TBF Avenger on Vella Lavella, Solomon Islands, on January 24, 1944. Diorama bait... The sinking of the Blucher. The Battle of Dogger Bank was a naval battle fought near the Dogger Bank (a massive sand bank which in the last ice age was a la[...]

On This Day…January 21st

by david leigh-smith on January 21, 2019
in Uncategorized — 11 Comments

In the morning of 21 Jan 1945, Ticonderoga (CV-14) aircraft, along with others of Task Force 38, attacked airbases at Formosa in the South China Sea. During these raids, the Ticonderoga was hit twice by kamikaze pilots. Despite the heroic effort[...]