The Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber was trapped inside the USS Yorktown with this bomb still attached to its cradle. The aircraft carrier was sunk by a Japanese submarine after the 1942 Battle of ...
Underpowered, vulnerable, lacking in range, and exhausting to fly for any length of time, there was little to love about the Douglas SBD Dauntless. However, during the Battle of Midway, the SBD played ...
There was bittersweet irony in Best’s accomplishment. It was his most successful mission, and also his last. As this reporter argued in an article in The National Interest published on January 23, ...
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How a ‘Dauntless' dive bomber became a WWII ace at Coral Sea
When one thinks of U.S. Navy aircraft carrier operations in the months leading up to the Battle of Midway, one name that readily comes to mind is Lt. Edward "Butch" O'Hare, the F4F-3 Wildcat pilot ...
It can be genuinely difficult to conceptualize the power trip the US Air Force underwent in the immediate aftermath of World War II. While most of Europe and East Asia busied themselves building back ...
PORTAGE, Mich. (WOOD) — An airplane from World War Two has been restored after five years of hard work from volunteers. Now, it’s set for another takeoff. “We have a Douglas Aircraft Built SB9-2P ...
PORTAGE, MI — The Air Zoo aerospace and science museum in Portage is in the process of restoring two historic military aircraft: the “Shaba” F-117 Nighthawk and the Douglas SBD-2P Dauntless. The two ...
On Dec. 9, 1941, two days after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Vultee Vice President of Production D. I. Caroll boasted that the plane manufacturer's Nashville division had increased productivity by two ...
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