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Williams, now flying a Grumman Avenger torpedo plane from an escort carrier in the Atlantic, was credited with the destruction of three U-boats, "possible damage" to a fourth. His squadron insignia: a Disney-designed Black Cat. He made one of his attacks on the 13th of the month...
...steamed once, fully laden, through a pack of 25 submarines. Not one was able to train a torpedo...
...super-powered pursuit aircraft. Amazingly "honest"-i.e., untricky-it is ideally adapted to carrier work. Yet it is in the 400-m.p.h. class, has a dazzling rate of climb, is probably the most nimble big fighter in U.S. service. Like other U.S. fighters it can carry bombs, a torpedo, or a belly tank...
...TORPEDO PLANES...
Avenger (Grumman TBF), the world's best, and the Navy's chief reliance since it superseded the Douglas Devastator (TBD) beginning with the battle of Midway. Fast and wellarmed, the big Avenger has plenty of interchangeability, can carry bombs, a huge gas tank, or a torpedo in its bomb bay. Airmen like to tell how an Avenger pilot landed on a carrier, opened up his bomb-bay doors and deposited four hitchhiking sailormen on the deck before he and his crew of two climbed down...