Two SB2C-3s were completely rebuilt with a Pratt & Whitney R-2800-28 Double Wasp engine, providing 1,565 kW (2,100 HP), and a longer fuselage, to be redesignated "XSB2C-6", but that variant never entered production.
Navy soldiers assess the damage done to a TBM 3, a remote-controlled drone, after it crashed after a takeoff attempt in the Solomon Islands, in July 1944.MIT Press
August 23, 1944, the day after being torpedoed and limpimg back to Scapa Flow; NABOB has stopped to make a second crew transfer of 205 to the HMCS Algonquin by boat. TRUMPETER stands by
Are we sure that's a remote controlled Avenger ?
It appears to be a 'standard' type, and the turret is armed. Also, the chap at bottom left in the photo, appears to be carrying a parachute pack away from the aircraft.
HMS Bickerton
The HMS Bickerton was refuelling from the HMS Nabob when Nabob got hit. HMS Bickerton got the second torpedo from the German submarine U-354 on 22. August 1944 in the Barents Sea.
A Canadian destroyer came back to help and the German submarine dived. The Canadian destroyer rescued the Bickeron crew that was alive and then sent HMS Bickerton to the bottom as she was hit to bad to save
The Canadian destroyer then took off part of the Nabobs crew and the remaining crew on HMS Nabob, including Robert W. Powers, got her up steam and sailed her back to Britain. Some sources mention that HMS Nabob returned to Scapa Flow but Robert Powers believe it was Inverness. HMS Nabob were shadowed by an enemy submarine but a brave pilot from Nabob managed to get his aircraft off from the sloping deck and kept the submarine down while Nabob escaped.
HMS Puncher
Commissioned as an Escort Carrier on 5 February 1944. She wore pennant D79 until paid off on 16 January 1946. Puncher also conducted strikes against Norwegian targets and acted as troop ship and aircraft ferry.