Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Barrett Tillman is the world's most prolific US naval aviation author, having published over two-dozen titles on the World War 2 period alone. He has written numerous books for Osprey in recent years, and he is currently working on several future projects too. TomTullis has illustrated a number of books in both the Aces and Combat Aircraft series. He was the first artist to produce material for Osprey Aviation electronically.Unquestionably the most successful dive-bomber ever to see frontline service with any air arm, the Douglas SBD Dauntless was the scourge of the Japanese Imperial Fleet in the crucial years of the Pacific War.
The revolutionary all-metal stressed-skin design of the SBD exhibited airframe strength that made it an ideal dive-bomber, its broad wing, with horizontal centre section and sharply tapered outer panels with dihedral, boasting perforated split flaps that doubled as dive brakes during the steep bombing attacks.
This illustrated, detailed volume explores the features of the American aircraft and the action it saw in the Pacific.
The Scout-Bombing Mission
Early Combat
Coral Sea and Midway
Guadalcanal and the Solomons
Central Pacific and the Philippines
Banshees and Foreign Dauntlesses
Perspective
Appendices