Photos

Douglas TBD of VT-6

Photo #: 80-G-19230-B Douglas TBD-1 Devastator torpedo plane Drops a Mark XIII torpedo during exercises in the Pacific, 20 October 1941. This plane is aircraft number 6-T-4 of Torpedo Squadron Six (VT-6), based on USS Enterprise (CV-6). All three of the plane's crewmen are visible in its cockpit. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

Photo #: 80-PR-3644 Douglas TBD-1 Devastator Torpedo Bomber, of Torpedo Squadron Five (VT-5) Undergoing maintenance at Naval Air Station, Norfolk, Virginia, between the 7 December 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the departure of VT-5's ship, USS Yorkt

Photo #: 80-G-19231-A Douglas TBD-1 Devastator torpedo plane Drops a Mark XIII torpedo during exercises in the Pacific, 20 October 1941. This plane is aircraft number 6-T-19 of Torpedo Squadron Six (VT-6), based on USS Enterprise (CV-6). Official U.S. Navy Pho

Photo #: 80-G-19231-B Douglas TBD-1 Devastator torpedo plane Drops a Mark XIII torpedo during exercises in the Pacific, 20 October 1941. This plane is from Torpedo Squadron Six (VT-6), based on USS Enterprise (CV-6). Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

Photo #: 80-G-19236-B Douglas TBD-1 Devastator torpedo plane Drops a Mark XIII torpedo during exercises in the Pacific, 20 October 1941. This plane is from Torpedo Squadron Six (VT-6), based on USS Enterprise (CV-6). Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the c

Photo #: 80-G-19229 Douglas TBD-1 Devastator torpedo plane Drops a Mark XIII torpedo during exercises in the Pacific, 20 October 1941. This plane is aircraft number 6-T-10, from Torpedo Squadron Six (VT-6), based on USS Enterprise (CV-6). Official U.S. Navy Ph

Photo #: 80-G-17525 Douglas TBD-1 Devastator torpedo plane, of Torpedo Squadron Six (VT-6) Approaches USS Enterprise (CV-6) to land, 4 May 1942. Note Landing Signal Officer at left. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

Photo #: 80-G-19229 Douglas TBD-1 Devastator torpedo plane Drops a Mark XIII torpedo during exercises in the Pacific, 20 October 1941. This plane is aircraft number 6-T-10, from Torpedo Squadron Six (VT-6), based on USS Enterprise (CV-6). Official U.S. Navy Ph

Photo #: 80-G-19230-A Douglas TBD-1 Devastator torpedo plane Drops a Mark XIII torpedo during exercises in the Pacific, 20 October 1941. This plane is aircraft number 6-T-9, from Torpedo Squadron Six (VT-6), based on USS Enterprise (CV-6). Official U.S. Navy P

View taken 11 April, 1942, on board USS ENTERPRISE (CV-6), at sea. Note crewman at work apparently washing down a part of the plane. Also note individual aircraft number "5," on undercarriage leg visible behind prop blade, and manner of "Tie-down" at left, in

View of two arresting wires caught in the aircraft's tail hook, 18 June 1940, aboard USS SARATOGA (CV-3).

The Torpedo Squadron Six commanding officer's aircraft, from USS Enterprise (CV-6), in flight with a formation of nine other TBD-1s in the background. Photograph was received in 1938. This aircraft, Bureau # 0322, was lost in an accident at sea on about 10 Mar

(Bureau # 0320), of Torpedo Squadron Three (VT-3) At Naval Air Station, North Island, California, 22 August 1940. It is painted in McClelland Barclay experimental camouflage design number 7. This aircraft was lost at the Battle of the Coral Sea in May 1942, wh

of Torpedo Squadron Six (VT-6) In flight, circa late 1941. Note the black marking 6-T-13 on the plane's fuselage side. Courtesy of Steve Ewing, 1991 U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

Landing on board USS Enterprise (CV-6), in about July 1941. Note landing signal officer is in the foreground, and plane guard destroyers in the center distance. The original photo caption gives a date of 8 April 1942, which is highly improbable as the plane is in mid-1941 vintage overall gray paint and the destroyers are wearing peacetime light gray paint. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.