“[An] extensively researched complete history of the famous SBD
Dauntless dive bomber, hero of the Battle of Midway. Very Highly
Recommended.” —Firetrench The Douglas SBD Dauntless, a
monoplane dive-bomber designed by Ed Heinemann for the United States
Navy and United States Marine Corps, arrived in service in the months
just preceding America’s entry into World War II. The first such
aircraft were being shipped out to the USMC units just as the Japanese
Task Force arrived in position to launch their attack on Pearl Harbor,
while those Dauntless embarked aboard the American aircraft carriers
of the Pacific Fleet became among the very first casualties of that
surprise attack. Very quickly the Dauntless established herself as
a highly accurate naval bomber at sea. In the early raids on
Japanese-held islands—and in 1942 at the naval battles of the Coral
Sea and Midway, Eastern Solomons and elsewhere—she proved herself a
key and decisive instrument to first halt and then turn the die
against Japanese expansion. The SBD (nicknamed “Slow But Deadly”)
fought ashore the bitter fighting at Guadalcanal and the subsequent
Solomon Island campaigns working from both shore and carrier bases.
The Dauntless continued to fight at sea until right up to 1944 and
then carried on with the Marine Corps to provide the American Army
with close air support in their conquest of the Philippines. In The
Dauntless in Battle, Peter Smith “traces its illustrious history
throughout the second world war and beyond in vivid detail” (Books
Monthly). “Lots of fine detail on both the aircraft and the crews
who flew them in action.” —Military Model Scene
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ISBN
9781526704627
Publisert
2019
Utgiver
Vendor
Pen & Sword Aviation (ORIM)
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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