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Dive bombers. The US had a superior dive bomber in the Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless compared to Japan's Aichi D3A2 "Val". [17] Benefitting from fortunate timing, bombs from the Dauntless sank all four of the Japanese carriers lost at Midway. [k] Nonetheless, the "Vals" served throughout the war and sank more Allied warships than any other Axis aircraft.
The Douglas SBD Dauntless is a World War II American naval scout plane and dive bomber that was manufactured by Douglas Aircraft from 1940 through 1944. The SBD ("Scout Bomber Douglas") was the United States Navy's main carrier-based scout/dive bomber from mid-1940 through mid-1944.
Vought SBU - Carrier-based dive bomber (withdrawn 1943) Vought SB2U Vindicator - Carrier-based dive bomber; Vought TBU Sea Wolf/Consolidated TBY Sea Wolf - Carrier-based torpedo-bomber; Vought V-173 - Experimental aircraft; Vultee SNV - Trainer; Waco LRW - Troop glider; Waco YKS-7 - Transport/liaison
The Curtiss SB2C Helldiver is a dive bomber developed by Curtiss-Wright during World War II. As a carrier-based bomber with the United States Navy (USN), in Pacific theaters, it supplemented and replaced the Douglas SBD Dauntless. A few survivors are extant.
Scuttled after damage from USS Enterprise dive bombers at the Battle of Midway: Kaga: Fleet carrier 72 aircraft 5 June 1942 Midway Atoll: 811 Scuttled following damage from USS Enterprise dive bombers during the Battle of Midway, Nigitsu Maru: Escort carrier / landing craft depot ship 8 aircraft 12 January 1944 off Okino-Daito Island 574
On 20 June 1941, the United States Navy placed an order with the Douglas Aircraft Company for two prototypes of a new two-seat dive bomber to replace both the Douglas SBD Dauntless and the new Curtiss SB2C Helldiver, designated XSB2D-1. [1] The resulting aircraft, designed by a team led by Ed Heinemann, was a large single-engined mid-winged ...
The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy Cross to Lieutenant Commander Richard Halsey Best (NSN: 0-71601), United States Navy, for extraordinary heroism in operations against the enemy while serving as Pilot of a carrier-based Navy Dive Bomber and Squadron Commander in Bombing Squadron SIX (VB-6 ...
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