Installing hardware inside the SBD-1 Dauntless restoration. #aviation | Air Zoo

🇺🇸WW2 Warbird in Action: SBD5 Dauntless Dive Bomber Display at Airshow A mainstay of American airpower during World War II, the Douglas SBD Dauntless was a scout plane and dive bomber that soared from aircraft carriers. Manufactured by Douglas Aircraft from 1940 to 1944, the SBD (“Scout Bomber Douglas”) served as the U.S. Navy’s primary carrier-based scout and dive bomber in the early war years. The Marine Corps also utilized the SBD, launching them from both land bases and carriers. The Daunt

Did you know our Museum’s Douglas SBD-2P Dauntless aircraft was assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise as part of a Scouting Squadron? As a dive bomber, our Dauntless performed air combat operations in the Pacific Theater and aircraft pilot qualifications in Lake Michigan. Lost in a 1944 pilot training mishap, she remained at the bottom of the Lake Michigan until 65 years later when Fred Turner and A&T Recovery worked together to make her recovery possible. Our SBD was then restored by

SBD-5 Dauntless Action!

Dauntless

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