my father told me about an uncle of his.

When my father was young, his uncle would spend hours on hours cutting balsa wood, trimming paper and gluing it all together to make scale aircraft models. Once completed he would climb up on the roof of the house, set the planes tail on fire, and let the rubber-band powered propeller due the rest. the plane would fly off, burning, then as crucial aero sections burned the plane would start to dive to the earth as a shot down aircraft.

When my uncle was old enough he went into the Military, he was 1/3 of the three man crew on a Grumman TBF Avenger during World War 2. As fate would have it, his plane was shot down, it burst into flames and was lost in the Pacific, with the crew.

There were three crewman on this type aircraft, the Pilot, the Turret gunner, and the radioman, Bombardier, ventral Gunner. His uncle was the later. His seat is shown facing forward, at the rear door, just behind the turret gunner in the drawing above. 
the Avenger TBF only carried that designation if it were built by Grumman, if built by General Motors it was a TBM.