File:TBD VT-8 at NAS Norfolk 1942.jpeg
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| Description | U.S. Navy ground personnel push a Douglas TBD-1 Devastator (BuNo 0284, "8-T-7") of Torpedo Squadron Eight (VT-8) into place at Naval Air Station Norfolk, Virginia (USA) in March 1942. Just over three months after this photograph was taken, the squadron, under the command of LCDR John C. Waldron, was wiped-out during the Battle of Midway. Including a landbased contingent flying TBF-1 Avengers from Midway Island and carrier-based Devastators, only three pilots and aircrewman survived action on 4 June 1942. "T-7" was lost with its crew, Ens. John Porter Gray and Max Arthur Calkins, ARM3c. |
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| Source | U.S. Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation photo No. 1996.253.1023 |
| Author | U.S. Navy |
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