Quonset Point, Rhode Island – August 31, 1944
On the afternoon of August 31, 1944, a navy TBF-1 Avenger, (Bu. No. 06077), was landing at the Quonset Point Naval Air Station when the aircraft ground-loped at high speed damaging the landing gear and buckling the fuselage. There were no injuries.
Source: U. S. Navy accident report dated August 31, 1944.