Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When one thinks of U.S. Navy aircraft carrier operations in the months leading up to the Battle of Midway, one name that readily ...

At Midway, the Dauntless was credited with sinking or mortally wounding each of the four Japanese aircraft carriers involved in the battle. Arguably the most important U.S. aircraft in World War II’s ...

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 ...

Adam Estes examines the legacy of the Battle of Midway through the story of "Midway Madness," the last surviving Douglas SBD ...

PEACHTREE CITY, Georgia (Henry Daily Herald) — WWII Veteran Dick Miralles slid into the gunner’s seat of the SBD Dauntless Dive Bomber almost as easily as he did 80 years ago in the South Pacific.

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 ...

With the commissioning of the first carrier, the USS Langley, the Navy realized there would be limitations to the size of aircraft used at sea. Carrier planes could not hope to carry the same bomb ...

Douglas TBD Devastator Early History and Specifications: The TBD Devastator made her maiden flight on April 15, 1935, and officially entered into operational service with the U.S. Navy on Aug. 3, 1937 ...

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 ...