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How One Pilot Sunk Two Aircraft Carriers At the Battle of Midway
the U.S. Navy’s Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber was the true game changer of the WWII Pacific Theatre, by virtue of its smashing feat of sinking four Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) aircraft ...
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Fagen Fighters WWII Museum Acquires Airworthy SBD Dauntless
The SBD will join Fagen Fighters' growing collection of Navy aircraft, which includes an SB2C Helldiver, F6F Hellcat, FM-2 ...
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Head-to-head: The Douglas SBD Dauntless vs. Curtiss SB2C Helldiver Bomber
The SBD turned the tide of that campaign by ... the Helldiver completely supplanted the Dauntless on aircraft carrier flight decks by the Battle of Leyte Gulf in October 1944 (the Battle of ...
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How One Pilot Sunk Two Aircraft Carriers At the Battle of Midway
The iconic Douglas SBD Dauntless warbird needs no introduction ... making him the first pilot to successfully bomb two Japanese aircraft carriers in one day. Even though it was the best day ...