CAF Airbase Georgia has announced its 2026 airshow and rides schedule, with WWII warbirds set to appear at airports across ...

Eighty-five years ago today, on September 6, 1940, the United States Navy received its first Douglas SBD Dauntless-a carrier-based dive-bomber and scout aircraft that would go on to earn legendary ...

PORTAGE, MI — The Air Zoo aerospace and science museum in Portage is in the process of restoring two historic military aircraft: the “Shaba” F-117 Nighthawk and the Douglas SBD-2P Dauntless. The two ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Single engine, low wing, carrier based scout/dive bomber.Both sides of fuselage: "109," U. S. star and bar insignia.

Underpowered, 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, the SBD played ...

-- A rare, combat-flown World War II U.S. Navy Douglas SBD-2P "Dauntless" Dive Bomber recovered from the bottom of Lake Michigan arrived Friday at Air Zoo, where it will be restored. After evaluating ...

The Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber was trapped inside the USS Yorktown with this bomb still attached to its cradle. The aircraft carrier was sunk by a Japanese submarine after the 1942 Battle of ...

There was bittersweet irony in Best’s accomplishment. It was his most successful mission, and also his last. As this reporter argued in an article in The National Interest published on January 23, ...

Douglas agreed to address the problem, beginning with the 58th production model. The Navy agreed to accept the first 57 SBD-1s without modification and decided that the Marines, who mostly operated ...

A World War II bomber has been discovered 3 miles deep in the Pacific Ocean, and it’s still fully armed with an 83-year-old bomb fixed to the wing, NOAA Ocean Exploration says. The Douglas SBD ...