At Midway, the Dauntless was credited with sinking or mortally wounding each of the four Japanese aircraft carriers involved ...

Navy pilot John Leppla was credited with shooting down five Japanese aircraft in aerial combat before he was shot down and ...

SBD Dauntless Dive Bomber. The SBD entered service in 1941 and ... These characteristics caused TBDs to take very heavy losses from Japanese flak and interceptors. At Midway, all the attacking TBDs ...

vulnerable, lacking in range, and exhausting to fly for any length of time, there was little to love about the Douglas SBD Dauntless. However, during the Battle of Midway, ...

Pacific Naval Air Combat from Pearl Harbor to Midway” by John B. Lundstrom; “Duel: SBD Dauntless vs. A6M Zero-Sen” by Donald Nijboer; and “Stars & Bars: A Tribute to the American Fighter ...