#SBD DAUNTLESS FULL#
Click here to read the full story of “Speedy-D”. The Scout Bomber Douglas is the naval scout plane and dive bomber well known for bombing the Japanese carriers at the Battle of Midway. Marine Corps continued to use the SBD, and in the 1950s, the French Air Force used SBDs in its war in Indo-China. Nearly 6,000 SBD’s were built during the war. SBDs sank more enemy shipping than any other aircraft, including six aircraft carriers, 14 cruisers, six destroyers, 15 transports or cargo ships, and countless smaller craft. It earned the nickname “Slow, But Deadly!” After the war, the U.S. The Dauntless was one of the most successful and important U.S.
Navy arsenal, the SBD sank over 300,000 tons of enemy ships, a greater tonnage of Japanese shipping than any other Allied aircraft during the war! Eighteen were warships, including five aircraft carriers sunk in the battle of the Coral Sea and Midway. Considered the most destructive air weapon in the U.S. Navy dive bomber to serve from the beginning of the World War II until the end. It may have been slow, but it was deadly, as that Japanese pilot found out that day. As Dixieflyer said, at least we have the rest of the stash to work through while waiting. Though considered obsolete on that “Day of Infamy” in the skies over Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, the SBD was the first American combat aircraft to shoot down a Japanese Zero fighter. I had almost clicked a couple of times earlier this year when Hobby2000 re-issued the Hasegawa kit. Marine Corps Squadrons and many SBDs were retrofitted with Westinghouse ASB radar, the first to be used by the U.S. The “Dauntless” sunk four major aircraft carriers of the Japanese Navy, ceasing Japanese expansion in the Pacific. Over 5,000 aircraft were built and production of the carrier-based scout, dive and torpedo bomber ceased in July 1944.ĭespite accusations that the aircraft was under-powered, vulnerable, lacking in range and exhausting to fly for any length of time, the “Dauntless” helped turn the tide of World War II at the Battle of Midway on June 4, 1942. Douglas Aircraft purchased the SBD contract and the SBD-1 was first delivered in late 1940. It was first flown in July 1935, but considered obsolete by December 1941 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. The Northrop Corporation first developed the SBD before World War II. The “Dauntless” helped turn the tide of World War II at the Battle of Midway on June 4, 1942.
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