often regarded as one of the most challenging dive bombers ever produced. Despite its troubled history, this aircraft played a pivotal role in the Navy's final years of WWII. Join us as we dive ...

In 1934, the United States Navy issued a requirement for a new carrier borne scout bomber that could double as a dive bomber. The specification accepted entries for both monoplane and biplane ...

Nearly 6,000 of the planes were manufactured during the war and served as the U.S. Navy’s primary carrier-based scout/dive bomber from ... Harrison joined the US Air Force as a Pilot Trainee ...

Meanwhile, hard on O’Hare’s heels in Lexington lore was a Douglas SBD-3 Dauntless team whose activities seemed just as much devoted to fighters as to dive bombers ... both of us and believe ...