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The Douglas SBD Dauntless took its #firstflight on May 1, 1940. The aircraft then went on to play a starring role in the war in the Pacific during WWII. The diving Dauntless saw action at Pearl Harbor – flying from the USS Enterprise, but are best known as the bomber that delivered the fatal blows to Japanese carrier at the Battle of Midway in June 1942. In total, the Dauntless sank more enemy ships than any other Allied bomber, destroying 18 enemy warships, including a battleship and six carrie

This is our Douglas SBD-4 Dauntless. The Dauntless is a two-seat Scout/Bomber Aircraft with a state-of-the-art low-wing monoplane with multi-cellular wing. This revolutionary development allowed for no external wing braces or stays. Because multi-cellular wings could not fold, the SBD was made very compact. SBDs carried a center-mounted 1,000 lb. bomb on a trapeze that swung the bomb down and forward to clear the prop. The SBD sank more tons of Japanese shipping than all other aircraft combined.