This technical manual page illustrates the pilot's overhead control panel of a U.S. Navy carrier-based torpedo bomber, most likely a TBF/TBM Avenger, detailing controls ranging from the propeller governor and throttle to the torpedo director switch and radio compass. Documents like this, preserved among Lt. Bancroft's Korean War-era Navy papers, reveal the technical complexity naval aviators mastered in order to operate these aircraft effectively in combat. Project: 218169