The TBM-3 Avenger was designed as a carrier-based torpedo bomber.  In action in the Pacific theater during World War 2, the aircraft was actually used in many different roles.  
     
       
 
  The American Airpower Museum's Avenger.  
       
       
The Great Lakes Composite Group's Ida Red.
       
       
 
Here are a few photographs of the Collings Foundation's Avenger .
       
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