★ SBD Dauntless ★ The Dauntless was a dive bomber whose pilots joked that the initials SBD stood not for “Scout Bomber—Douglas” but for “Slow But Deadly.” Its top speed was a mere ...

Ken Beaton: The miracle at Midway At Midway Airport in Chicago, where Concourses A, B & C intersect, this SBD-5 Dauntless Navy Dive Bomber is suspended for everyone to see the plane that sank all four ...

The SBD Dauntless, nicknamed “Slow But Deadly” by its pilots, is best remembered for its performance at the Battle of Midway, where the dive bomber was credited with sinking four Japanese ...

Midway on June 4, 1942 was a decisive battle of the Pacific War. Lt. Richard Best is in Squadron Six(VB-6) of the USS Enterprise Air flying an SBD Dauntless bomber. The Americans are going up ...

The Dauntless’ status as a game-changer was firmly cemented at the Battle of Midway in June 1942, whereupon the SBD-3 variant of this legendary warbird sank the four Imperial Japanese Navy (IIJN ...

The SBD-2 Dauntless is the only aircraft that survives from the Battle of Midway that is commemorated each year.

Many stories of the Battle of Midway highlight the role of cryptography in breaking Japanese codes and the herculean effort to repair USS Yorktown after the battle of the Coral Sea so that she could ...

The Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber fell to the seafloor trapped inside the USS Yorktown, which was sunk by a Japanese submarine after the 1942 Battle of Midway.

The Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber fell to the seafloor trapped inside the USS Yorktown, which was sunk by a Japanese submarine after the 1942 Battle of Midway.