Adam Estes examines the legacy of the Battle of Midway through the story of "Midway Madness," the last surviving Douglas SBD ...

Fagen Fighters WWII Museum today announced the latest addition to its collection-an airworthy 1942 Douglas SBD Dauntless A-24B, recently acquired from the Lone Star Flight Museum in Houston, Texas.

Summary The Douglas SBD Dauntless was one of the truly great aircraft of World War II. It played a major role throughout the Pacific. On June 4, 1942, during the Battle of Midway, SBDs destroyed four ...

At Midway, the Dauntless was credited with sinking or mortally wounding each of the four Japanese aircraft carriers involved in the battle. Arguably the most important U.S. aircraft in World War II’s ...

The Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber was trapped inside the USS Yorktown with this bomb still attached to its cradle. The aircraft carrier was sunk by a Japanese submarine after the 1942 Battle of ...