SBD Dauntless Units of World War 2

SBD Dauntless Units of World War 2 cover

Description

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 of World War II (1939-1945). 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

Table of Contents

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

Product details

Published Nov 27 1998
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 98
ISBN 9781855327320
Imprint Osprey Publishing
Illustrations 100 b/w; 40 col
Dimensions 248 x 184 mm
Series Combat Aircraft
Short code COM 10
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

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Barrett Tillman

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Illustrator

Tom Tullis

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