The SBD's design was based on the Northrop BT-1, but with engine and structural changes. Production orders were placed in April 1939, with all SBD-1s going to U.S. Marine Corps units. Subsequent ...

Eighty-five years ago today, the Douglas SBD Dauntless made its first flight-ushering in an era of unmatched dive-bombing precision in naval aviation. Nicknamed "Slow But Deadly," the Dauntless ...

Ergo, the Dauntless merited her “Slow But Deadly” sobriquet in more ways than one. The Douglas SBD Dauntless was officially credited with 138 air-to-air victories vs. 43 losses of their own.

The SBD-6 was the final version and this example is the sixth of this model built. The U.S. Army Air Corps, awed by the performance of German Stukas, but not having dive-bombers of their own ...

The first Dauntless, a modified XBT-2, was test-flown on April 22, 1938. Just a year later, Douglas received an order for fifty-seven SDB-1 and then eighty-seven SBD-2 aircraft.

SBD-2P 2173 arrived at the Air Zoo on July 1 st, 2016 amidst much fanfare and media attention. It arrived at the front of the Air Zoo’s Flight Innovation Center to a crowd of all generations ...

The Commemorative Air Force offers Warbird rides in Fond du Lac during EAA's AirVenture. Fond du Lac County Sheriff Ryan Waldschmidt rode in a WWII-era Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless, the same type of ...

A US Marines plane that went down during World War II has been discovered in the South Pacific, 80 years after it went missing. The wreckage of the Douglas SBD Dauntless was found by locals in the ...

The U.S. Navy Douglas “Dauntless” Dive Bomber SBD-2P was pulled from Lake Michigan in 2009 after it was lost decades earlier during the Great Lakes secret training missions.