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The TriState Warbird Museum will bring in a P-51 Mustang, a fighter aircraft escort to the slower B-17 and B-25 bombers; and a Navy Grumman TBM-3 Avenger, a torpedo bomber, said David O’Maley, president of the museum.
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Sue Kiesewetter, The Enquirer, 3 June 2021
Esper planned to lay a wreath at the site off Palau's coast where a U.S. Navy Avenger torpedo bomber crashed on July 27, 1944.
—Robert Burns, Star Tribune, 26 Aug. 2020
Franzke, who loved to jitterbug as a kid, served in the Navy from 1943 to 1945, flying Grumman TBF Avenger torpedo bombers off the carrier USS Saginaw Bay in the Pacific.
—Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Apr. 2020
The efforts have been likened to World War II when GM’s factories were retooled to make tanks, trucks, aircraft engines, shells and even fighters and torpedo bombers.
—Guy Boulton, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Mar. 2020
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Sue Kiesewetter, The Enquirer, 3 June 2021
Esper planned to lay a wreath at the site off Palau's coast where a U.S. Navy Avenger torpedo bomber crashed on July 27, 1944.
—Robert Burns, Star Tribune, 26 Aug. 2020
Franzke, who loved to jitterbug as a kid, served in the Navy from 1943 to 1945, flying Grumman TBF Avenger torpedo bombers off the carrier USS Saginaw Bay in the Pacific.
—Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Apr. 2020
The efforts have been likened to World War II when GM’s factories were retooled to make tanks, trucks, aircraft engines, shells and even fighters and torpedo bombers.
—Guy Boulton, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Mar. 2020
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for torpedo bomber
Noun
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Stratolaunch tests reusable hypersonic rocket plane.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
9 May 2025
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Ambitious short film chronicles daring flight of X-15 rocket plane test pilot (video) Going to SXSW 2025?—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
8 Mar. 2025
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The water was filled with sharks bigger than Zamperini's raft, and Japanese bombers made several passes at them, too.—
Lee Habeeb,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 July 2025
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The recent Operation Midnight Hammer in which U.S. bombers struck three nuclear targets in Iran, prove that air and space superiority remain decisive.—
David A. Deptula,
Forbes.com,
16 July 2025
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In the 1960s, the federal government also poured resources into developing a supersonic transport plane.—
Made by History,
Time,
1 Apr. 2025
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Although supersonic passenger aircraft found a niche from the 1970s through the early 2000s with the Concorde, commercial supersonic transport is no longer available for the mainstream consumer marketplace today.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
9 Feb. 2025
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By 2019, those Essex F-35Bs flew twice as much as its predecessor, the AV-8B Harrier jump jet, had on previous deployments.—
Paul Iddon,
Forbes.com,
13 May 2025
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One thing that Anadolu has that the America class does not is a ski ramp, a holdover from Juan Carlos and the need to support Spain’s fleet of Harrier jump jets.—
Kyle Mizokami,
Popular Mechanics,
19 Apr. 2023
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The idea was to build a seaplane using advanced composite materials that had enough range and payload capacity to carry out fast logistics missions as well as assisting in rescue and disaster relief efforts.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
11 July 2025
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Every show opened with a dramatic ocean view of the skyline from a seaplane approaching the Beach.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
8 July 2025
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Horner said 'Thanks for the offer' and Elkann rang his pilots and told them to spool up the jets.—
Saajan Jogia,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 July 2025
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The jets also targeted the Galaxy Leader, a commercial vessel the Houthis hijacked back in November 2023.—
Paul Iddon,
Forbes.com,
10 July 2025
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But close to daybreak, a German warplane bombed the chateau, leaving a crater in the earth and a trail of carnage.—
Amy Sohn,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 June 2025
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Last year, Taipei tracked over 3,000 Chinese warplane sorties in its air defense zone, nearly double the figure recorded in each of the previous two years, according to PLATracker, a public dataset maintained by U.S. analysts Gerald C. Brown and Benjamin Lewis.—
John Feng,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 June 2025
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“Torpedo bomber.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/torpedo%20bomber. Accessed 24 Jul. 2025.
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