Discover how CAF Airbase Georgia's Douglas SBD Dauntless was mistaken for a lost Army A-24 and how pilot Keith Wood uncovered its true Navy origins.

Today, it remains one of only a handful of airworthy A-24B/SBD-5 aircraft in existence, out of the 3,640 originally built (2,965 for the U.S. Navy and 675 for the U.S. Army Air Forces).

Ergo, the Dauntless merited her “Slow But Deadly” sobriquet in more ways than one. The Douglas SBD Dauntless was officially credited with 138 air-to-air victories vs. 43 losses of their own.

The SBD-5 was the most produced variant of the Dauntless and served throughout the battles of 1943. The last version of the Dauntless, the SBD-6 featured a larger engine, which raised top speed to 262 ...

Two SBD-5 Dauntless bombers and a TBM/F-1 Avenger torpedo bomber were found in seabed of Truk Lagoon The planes took part in Operation Hailstone, the February 1944 mission to remove Japan from the ...

The team discovered the two SBD-5 Dauntless dive bombers and one TBM/F-1 Avenger while searching Truk Lagoon in the Chuuk State of Micronesia, per a statement.

SBD Dauntless WWII plane add-on launched for Flight Sim X. News by GamesIndustry.biz Contributor Published on Feb. 23, 2010 ...