Underpowered, vulnerable, lacking in range, and exhausting to fly for any length of time, there was little to love about the Douglas SBD Dauntless. However, during the Battle of Midway, the SBD played ...

The Douglas A-4 Skyhawk was the Navy/Marine light attack jet that did it all: first U.S. ordnance over Vietnam, more combat sorties than any other naval attack aircraft, and later a Blue Angels staple ...

In this edition of our Countdowns series, we uncover five little-known facts about the SBD Dauntless Dive Bomber, the U.S. Navy’s workhorse of the Pacific in World War II. Using the IL-2 Sturmovik: ...