| | Douglas SBD Dauntless and A-24 Banshee in combat
1. SBD-3 'Black S-10", BuNo 4690, flown by LTJG Stanley 'Swede' Vejtasa & Rm3 Frank B. Wood, VS-5, USS Yorktown, Battle of the Coral Sea, 8 May 1942.
2. SBD-5 'White 35", flown by LTJG George Glacken & RM Leo Boulanger, VB-16, USS Lexington (CV-16), early April 1944. More |
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| | Douglas SBD Dauntless and A-24 Banshee in combat. Part 3
1. A-24 (SBD-3), 'SHWAB'S WAGON' , 41-15824, flown by Cpt. Virgil Schwab & Sgt. Philip Childs, 8th Bombardment Squadron, 3rd Bombardment Group, Port Moresby, May 1942.
2. SBD-3 'Black 41-S-16", VS-41, USS Ranger, Operation Torch, November 1942. More |
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| | Douglas SBD-3 Dauntless at war in the Pacific. For the Accurate Miniatures kit (Re-issued by MRC and Italeri over the past years) Set has markings for 11 different SBD-3 aircraft.Markings for 11 different SBD-3 used buy the USN from the Battle of Coral Sea until the end of the Guadalcanal Campaign. Markings for SBDs from Lexington, Saratoga, Yorktown, Enterprise, Hornet, and Wasp plus one land based unit. Aircraft included are Lt Best and Lt Kleiss from CV-6 at Midway, Cdr Ault from Coral Sea, The Queen Bee, a SBD that scored a bomb hit on the IJN Ryujo, a Lexington SBD crew that was awarded the Medal of Honor, and another that gravely wounded Saburo Sakai over Tuligi. More |
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| | Douglas SBD Dauntless By Kev Darling
The Douglas SBD Dauntless earned itself a reputation as a great dive bomber even though its antecedents were very much of pre-war origin. Many nicknames were given to the SBD during its time in frontline service, my own personal favourite is 'slow but deadly'. The original concept was developed by Jack Northrop with some help from Ed Heinemann. The resultant aircraft, the BT-1, had quite a few faults that would be rectified when the SBD-1 appeared. Very much a pre-production model the remainder of this first contract was completed as the SBD-2 and had few improvements over the earlier machines. It took the appearance of the SBD-3 to create a more warlike machine that incorporated self sealing fuel tanks, armour plating and improved armament. Each version thereafter showed some improvement , the final version, the SBD-6, being the best of all. The USAAF also used a version of the Dauntless, this being the A-24 Banshee. The only difference between the two models was the lack of naval equipment for carrier operation otherwise it was the same. Unfortunately by the time the SBD-6 appeared the frontline career of the Dauntless was over. However, the Dauntless and its land equivalent the Banshee had other careers with the Royal Navy, the French Air Force and Navy, Chile and Mexico.[ SBD-2 SBD-3 SBD-4 SBD-5 SBD-6] More |
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