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	SBD Dauntless - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Douglas SBD Dauntless was the U.S. Navy's main dive bomber from mid-1940 until late 1943, with arrival of the SB2C Helldiver.
		Dauntlesses contributed to the heavy loss of Japanese shipping during the campaign, including the carrier Ryujo near the Solomon Islands on August 24, damaging three others during the six-month campaign.
		Although it was already obsolescent by 1941, the SBD was used until 1944 when the Dauntless undertook its last major action during the Battle of the Philippine Sea.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/SBD_Dauntless (882 words)

	The Rise and Fall of Donald Douglas - March 2006
		Donald Douglas was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1892, the second son of William and Dorothy Douglas.
		Douglas recognized that the biplane formula was obsolete and introduced a new design that catered to his inveterate interest in the sea.
		Douglas knew the end of the war would mean the end of the era of huge military contracts.
	www.afa.org /magazine/March2006/0306douglas.asp (2853 words)

	Info on WWII SBD Douglas Dauntless Naval Carrier Fighter - by Fiddlers Green
		The structure of the Dauntless was extremely strong but also rather heavy, and with the chosen engine its power-toweight ratio inevitably resulted in a rather sluggish performance, especially with a worthwhile external load.
		Once airborne, the Dauntless laboured upwards at a maximum initial rate of 1,430 ft/mm (7,26 m/sec), which, with a 1,000-lb (453,59-kg) bomb, was reduced to 1,190 ft/mm (6,04 m/sec).
		Recovery was positive, pulling about 5g, and while frankly, I did not consider the Dauntless to be as good a dive bomber as the Ju 87,1 was left with the opinion that it was certainly one of the most effective aeroplanes designed to fulfil that role.
	www.fiddlersgreen.net /AC/aircraft/Douglas-Dauntless/daunt_info/daunt_info.htm (2988 words)

	The Aeronut - The Dauntless SBD! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Dauntless flew into legend on the morning of June 4, 1942, when the 36 aircraft of Scouting-6 and Bombing-6 from the U.S.S. "Enterprise" arrived over the main Japanese fleet north of Midway Island.
		Of course, the SBD Dauntless did fly in other actions: participating in five of history's six fleet carrier battles, battling "The Tokyo Express" in "the slot" off Guadalcanal, protecting the flank defense for the First Cavalry Division in the race to save Manila and the Philippine POW camps, among many others.
		Considered obsolete at the outset of the war, the Dauntless sank battleships, aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroyers and troop transports - it was the greatest ship-killer of the war.
	members.aol.com /tomsairtoair/sbd.html (757 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The SBD Dauntless dive bomber was one of the great combat planes of World War II, considered sturdy and reliable by the Navy and Marine crews that flew it in the Pacific.
		Douglas Aircraft Co. built 5,936 Dauntless aircraft between 1935 and 1944, though the plane was comparatively outdated when the United States entered World War II.
		In Marine hands, the Dauntless was a familiar sight on Pacific islands, often in battles against Japanese units that were bypassed by ground forces during the island-hopping advance toward Tokyo.
	www.marinetimes.com /print.php?f=0-MARINEPAPER-639615.php (566 words)

	Douglas SBD Dauntless - shipborne dive-bomber (D Llewellyn James)
		The Dauntless was the standard shipborne dive-bomber of the US Navy from mid-1940 until November 1943 (when the first operational Curtiss SB2C Helldivers arrived to replace it).
		The Dauntless was older and slower than its Japanese opposite number, the Aichi D3A2 "Val" - but the SBD was far more resistant to battle damage, and its flying qualities perfectly suited it to its role.
		The SBD was gradually phased out during 1944, and the 20 June 1944 strike against the Japanese Mobile Fleet in the Battle of the Philippine Sea was therefore its last major action as a carrier-borne aircraft.
	www.angelfire.com /fm/compass/SBD.htm (533 words)

	Model Airplane News: Reviews - MADDEN MODEL PRODUCTS / ZIROLI - DOUGLAS SBD DAUNTLESS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Douglas Aircraft took over the plant and continued to develop the aircraft, then known as the XBT-2.
		The Dauntless cockpit is a great subject to detail; I used a Dynamic Balsa and Hobby Supply* cockpit kit.
		The marriage of the R780 and the Ziroli SBD Dauntless is a match that's hard to beat.
	www.modelairplanenews.com /reviews/dauntless.asp (2916 words)

	Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless aircraft profile. Aircraft Database of the Fleet Air Arm Archive 1939-1945 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Dauntless was subsequently equipped at Wittering by 787 and 700 squadrons from July 1944 till Februar 1946.
		The SBD Dauntless served with distinction in with the USMC and USN during WW2.
		A third "Dauntless", an SBD-3 (BuNo 06508) is on display and a fourth "Dauntless" (BuNo 2106), an SBD-2 and veteran of the Battle of Midway, is undergoing restoration at the Museum.
	www.fleetairarmarchive.net /Aircraft/Dauntless.htm (934 words)

	Accurate Miniatures 1/48 SBD-5 Dauntless by Randy Lutz
		The Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber became a mainstay of the Navy's air fleet in the Pacific, with the lowest loss ratio of any U.S. carrier-based aircraft.
		Despite being replaced by the SB2C Helldiver on fleet carriers, the Dauntless was used a great deal by Navy and Marine dive bomber squadrons for general island patrol and for assisting Marine and Army units battling on the many island campaigns throughout the Pacific war.
		However, the Dauntless was a departure from their previous releases, as each separate assembly step has painting instructions.
	www.modelingmadness.com /reviews/allies/us/lutzsbd.htm (1611 words)

	Dauntless - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		HMS Dauntless, four ships of the Royal Navy.
		USCGC Dauntless (WMEC-624), a cutter of the United States Coast Guard.
		USS Dauntless (NX-01-A), a fictionary starship in the Star Trek universe.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dauntless (113 words)

	McDonnell Douglas: History -- The War Years (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Dauntless pilots contributed to the victory at the Battle of Midway by sinking four Japanese carriers.
		Douglas also established a top-secret aircraft maintenance facility in Ethiopia to serve Allied air commands in North Africa and was among the first to start manufacturing missiles.
		The Douglas Aircraft Company entry into the world of space and missiles was the ROC I, a guided air-to-surface rocket, first tested in 1941.
	www.boeing.com /history/mdc/havocs.htm (255 words)

	AirToAirCombat.Com: Douglas AD / A-1 Skyraider: XBT2D (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		When the war in the Pacific began, the Douglas SBD Dauntless and the Douglas TBD Devastator were the primary aircraft which filled these roles.
		The TBD was not very successful, but the SBD Dauntless gave an outstanding performance at the Battle of Midway and is generally rated as one of the best dive bombers of the war.
		Douglas was faced with a situation in which its products were being displaced from Navy carrier decks by other manufacturer's aircraft.
	www.airtoaircombat.com /background.asp?bg=673&id=157 (1401 words)

	SDAM - Welcome to the San Diego Air & Space Museum
		Among aircraft credited with changing the tactics of naval warfare, the Douglas SBD Dauntless is perhaps the most significant.
		Designed by the esteemed Ed Heinemann, the Douglas SBD was intended to be both a scout aircraft and a dive bomber.
		The Museum's SBD-4 (06900), one of 780 SBD-4s built by Douglas, was attached to the U.S.S. Sable for carrier training, when it sank to the bottom of Lake Michigan as a result of engine failure on the 26th of June, 1943.
	www.aerospacemuseum.org /exhibits/aircraft_march.html (365 words)

	Atomic Workshop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		At first glance Richard Crossley's Douglas Dauntless SBD-3 appears to be a normal 'stick and tissue' model of his usual high standard.
		However Richard chose the Dauntless as his entry into the Interscale 2004 competition for several reasons, its low wing loading, ample dihedral and large tail surfaces enabled the model to carry a rather special 'payload' to give him bonus flight points.
		Once the undercarriage are up another programmable delay allows for that qualifying flight (8 seconds) before the controller lowers the undercarriage again at scale speed ready for that all important landing.
	www.atomicworkshop.co.uk /Articles/DauntlessSBD3.htm (501 words)

	Curtiss SB2C Helldiver (David Llewellyn James)
		This large, heavy, impressive and powerful dive-bomber was intended as an improvement on the SBD Dauntless, which it was to replace.
		Combat experience, especially at the Battle of the Philippine Sea, revealed that the Dauntless was in fact the superior aircraft.
		However, it was at this stage impossible to reverse the changeover to the Helldiver, and the Philippine Sea battle was the SBD's last major action as a carrier aircraft.
	www.angelfire.com /fm/compass/SB2C.htm (341 words)

	Boeing: History -- Products - Douglas SBD Dauntless Dive Bomber
		The Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber became a mainstay of the Navy's World War II air fleet in the Pacific, with the lowest loss ratio of any U.S. carrier-based aircraft.
		The Dauntless was developed at the Douglas Northrop facility at El Segundo, Calif., and was based on the Northrop Model 8 attack bomber developed for both the Army and the export market.
		The SBD Dauntless featured "Swiss cheese" flaps -- dive brakes punched with 3-inch holes -- so that it could achieve pinpoint accuracy by diving to the target, dropping the bomb and then pulling out of the near-vertical dive.
	www.boeing.com /history/mdc/dauntless.htm (257 words)

	Douglas SDB Dauntless die cast airplane airfix plastic model Kits
		Recreated in fine pewter, fitted to a pewter stand, and mounted to a hardwood base with inset descriptive coin, this Dauntless replica is approximately 41/2" in length and 5" in wingspan.
		This highly detailed 1/48 scale die cast model replicates a U.S. Marine Corps dive-bomber from VB-16 of the USS Lexington, serving in the Gilbert Islands in November 1943.
		The U.S. Army Air Corps version of the Navy's Dauntless dive-bomber, the Banshee variants A-24, A-24A and A-24B correspond to the SBD-3, SBD-4 and SBD-5 Dauntless variants.
	www.johnjohn.co.uk /shop/alpha/douglas_sbd_dauntless.html (587 words)

	Douglas SBD Dauntless (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Designed as light bomber and reconnaissance aircraft, Dauntless monoplanes served during the war with the US Marine Corps, the Army and the Navy, production not finally coming to an end until 1944, by which time nearly 6,000 had been built.
		This time US naval aircraft, spearheaded by Dauntless dive-bombers, destroyed four Japanese carriers, a cruiser and 250 aircraft, for the loss of one US carrier, a destroyer and 150 aircraft.
		Dauntless aircraft accounted for many Japanese aircraft shot down in air-to-air combat, and finished their wartime career as antisubmarine bombers and as attack aircraft, carrying depth charges and rocket projectiles respectively.
	www.scalecraft.com /browseproducts/Douglas-SBD-Dauntless.HTML (371 words)

	Warbird Alley: Douglas C-47 Skytrain / Dakota
		The Douglas DC-3 was born of the intense competition for modern commercial aircraft that characterized the post-World War I era.
		It was the direct descendant of the DC-1, which first flew in 1933 as Douglas' initial response to a short supply of competitor, Boeing Aircraft's, landmark 10-passenger 247, the first, low-wing, all-metal airliner.
		When, in 1934, American Airlines asked Douglas for a larger version of the DC-2 that would permit sleeping accommodations for transcontinental flights, Douglas responded with the 24 passenger (16 as a "sleeper" craft) DST (Douglas Sleeper Transport), the 24-passenger version of which was designated DC-3.
	www.warbirdalley.com /c47.htm (578 words)

	Dauntless
		The SBD Dauntless was the scourge of the Japenese Imperial Fleet in the crucial years of the Pacific War.
		By the time the BT-1 had evolved into the BT-2, Northrop had been acquired by Douglas, and the type was redesignated the SBD-1.
		Last Dauntlesses were retired from French service in July 1949.
	frenchnavy.free.fr /aircraft/dauntless/dauntless.htm (378 words)

	Aircraft: Douglas SBD-4 Dauntless
		We used the SBD Dauntless as a training aircraft.
		The big feature of the Dauntless was its ability to slow down through the use of its perforated diving brakes which were normally deployed (like flaps on today's aircraft) to control speed during a bombing dive.
		The camera had to be held firmly in the "slipstream" because we were not allowed to have it fastened to us or to the aircraft since it could do damage if dropped.
	aeroweb.brooklyn.cuny.edu /specs/douglas/sbd-4.htm (473 words)

	Aircraft: Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless
		Wilmington, NC The lack of bombs indicate that the centre pic is,indeed,not a Dauntless.
		Wilmington, NC The lack of contact bombs or guns indicate that the centere pic is indeed,not a Dauntless.
		, ON The centre pic is not a Dauntless, it is a T-6,Harvard,Texan,whatever!
	www.aero-web.org /specs/douglas/sbd-5.htm (256 words)

	Divide and Conquer - SBD Dauntless (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Dauntless' first real baptism by fire, as a whole, came with the conflict in the Coral Sea.
		By far, the moment in time that jutted the Dauntless to its honored pedestal in history was the critical Battle of Midway.
		Already outdated by the Battle of Midway in 1942, the Dauntlesses were soon relegated to an anti-submarine and ground attack roles, having lived out their major combat usefulness.
	home.earthlink.net /~divideandconquer/aircraft/bombers/us_bombers/b_dauntless.htm (271 words)

	SBD Dauntless, World War 2 Model Aircraft.
		Signed by Lt. Cook Cleland, pilot of a Dauntless flying off of the USS Lexington, this limited edition print features a wonderful depiction of the Dauntless and also documents the amazing wartime exploits of Lt. Cleland, winner of the Navy Cross in the Battle of the Philippine Sea.
		This particular Val flew from the IJN Shokaku and fought against a Dauntless from the USS Enterprise CV-6 on June 4, 1942.
		In August 1942, Dauntless dive-bombers flown by Robert C. Shaw and Harold L. Jones off of the USS Enterprise near Tulgi were attacked by two A9M2 Zero fighters from Rabaul.
	www.yellowairplane.com /Models_Fighters/airplane_models_SBD_Dauntless.html (1007 words)

	Main
		Northrop, having only recently left Douglas, offered the BT-1, and the Navy, after having seen it fly, order 54 machines in 1936.
		At this time, Douglas bought Northrop Corporation, and the plane was renamed XSBD-1, and named Dauntless.
		Douglas continued the design by adding more fuel tanks, making the SDB-2, which was first brought to sea on USS Enterprise and USS Lexington.
	www.turnkeyrc.com /dauntless.htm (476 words)

	SDB Dauntless
		The Douglas Dauntless, called with affection the "Speedy D", was the plane that broke the Imperial Japanese Navy's neck in 1942.
		However, the contract with the Navy foresaw also the continued development of the BT-1, and Northrop continued it by putting a Wright-Cyclone engine in and calling the result the XBT-2.
		Dauntlesses participated in the sinking of all six Japanese carriers lost in 1942, sinking four by themselves alone.
	www.microworks.net /pacific/aviation/sbd_dauntless.htm (401 words)

	Dauntless
		SBD-5 Dauntless de la flottille 4FB, vu en 1944.
		Le SBD Dauntless était la hantise de la flotte impériale japonaise pendant les année cruciales de la guerre du Pacifique.
		Le temps que le BT-1 ait évolué vers le BT-2, Northrop avait été acquis par Douglas, et le modèle était renommé SBD-1.
	frenchnavy.free.fr /aircraft/dauntless/dauntless_fr.htm (423 words)

	Warbird Alley: Douglas SBD Dauntless
		Its influence was felt over at the Douglas Company, where a new naval dive-bomber was designed and produced based on the Northrop design.
		Initially designated the XBT-2, the new design was later called the SBD when Northrop was bought out by the Douglas Company.
		Combat Aircraft of the Pacific War: SBD Dauntless
	www.warbirdalley.com /sbd.htm (545 words)

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