World War Photos

Commanders Burch VS-5 and Taylor VT-5 aboard USS Yorktown (CV-5) after Tulagi Raid May 4, 1942

Early TBD-1 front view

TBD-1 of VT-6 from USS Enterprise over Wake Island 24 February 1942

Devastators of the VT-5 from the USS Yorktown

XTBD-1 Devastator

Devastators of VT-3 preparing to take off from the flight deck of USS Saratoga 1938

TBD-1A Devastator 2X-D1-1 BuNo 0268 1939 2

TBD-1A Devastator BuNo 0268 1939

TBD of the VT-3 with folded wings July 1938

Douglas TBD-1 BuNo 0268

Lexington-class aircraft carrier reloading crew rushing bombs to returning planes 1942

TBD 6-T-1 BuNo 0322 of VT-6 from USS Enterprise in flight

Devastators VT-5 from the USS Yorktown over California 1940

TBD 3-T-10 of the VT-3 BuNo 0370

XTBD-1 near NAS Anacostia October 14, 1935

TBD 3-T-12 from USS Saratoga, October 1941

Formation of Devastators of VT-5 March 1940

TBD BuNo 0362

XTBD-1 BuNo 9720, 1935

TBD-1 Devastators of the VT-6 are prepared for launching on USS Enterprise at about 0730, 4 June 1942 – Battle of Midway

Squadron commander of VT-6 in the flight with the squadron overhead 1938

TBD-1A at the Newport Torpedo Station Rhode Island 10 October 1941

Douglas TBD Devastator code 6-T-13 of the VT-6 in flight, 1941

Douglas TBD Devastator 6-T-1 of the VT-6 in flight, March 1939

TBD Devastator is painted in McClelland Barclay experimental camouflage design number 8 2

TBD is painted in McClelland Barclay experimental camouflage design number 7

Lt Cdr Lance E. Massey commander of VT-3 in cockpit of TBD, 24 May 1942

TBD Devastator code 6-T-16 of the VT-6 in flight – 1939

TBD Devastator is painted in McClelland Barclay experimental camouflage design number 8

TBD 5-T-11 landing accident on USS Yorktown CV-5. September 1940

XTBD-1 Devastator 1936

TBD-1 torpedo mounting

Side view of the first production TBD-1 Devastator June 28, 1937

TBD-1 of the VT-4 from USS Ranger July 28, 1942

TBD-1 Devastators of VT-6 on the flight deck of USS Enterprise – Doolittle Raid April 11, 1942

TBD-1 Devastators of VT-6 lined up for launch, USS Enterprise on May 4, 1942

Douglas TBD-1 Devastator 5-T-7 of VT-5 in flight

TBD-1 Devastator of VT-5 undergoing maintenance at NAS Norfolk December 16, 1941

TBD-1 Devastators of VT-3 on aircraft Carrier USS Saratoga 1941

TBD Devastators coded 7-T-7 and 7-T-9 of the VT-7, wings folded, RNAS Hatston

XTBD-1 Devastator 9720 in flight over the Virginia countryside on July 12, 1935

TBD-1 Devastator USS Enterprise CV-6 1941

TBD Devastator during flight testing at Hamptom Roads

TBD Devastators 600, 602, 603 of the Naval Operational Training Command at NAS Miami in flight over Atlantic 1942

TBD-1 of VT-6 and F3F-2 of VF-6 and SBC-1 VS-6 in flight over Virginia

TBD-1 Devastator 5-T-7 of VT-5 in flight over Southern California November 16, 1939

TBD-1 Devastators 2-T-9, 2-T-7, 2-T-8 of Torpedo Squadron VT-2

The cockpit interior of a Douglas TBD Devastator

TBD-1 Devastator 0368 “black 5” of VT-6 from USS Enterprise over Wake Island

TBD-1 Devastators of VT-4 USS Ranger CV-4 in June 1942

TBD-1 Devastator front

TBD-1 Devastators of VT-2 in formation January 6, 1941

TBD assembly line at Douglas Aircraft Companys Santa Monica

TBD Devastators with wings folded – RNAS Hatston 1942

gunners cockpit in TBD Devastator

TBD-1 Devastator of VT-3 in a camouflaged revetment at NAS Kaneohe May 29, 1942

XTBD-1 Devastator in fight near NAS Anacostia October 14, 1935

TBD prepare to take off England

Douglas TBD Devastators of the VT-5

TBD-1 Devastator of VT-6 off the carrier Enterprise on the ground at Oakland California June 11, 1939

TBD Devastator torpedo bomber with its wing floats inflated 1937