Pilot John Leppla, right, was a WWII Navy ace, credited with shooting down five Japanese aircraft in aerial combat ... Lexington lore was a Douglas SBD-3 Dauntless team whose activities seemed ...

Arguably the most important U.S. aircraft in World War II’s Pacific Theater was the Douglas SBD (“Scout Bomber Douglas”) Dauntless. Nearly 6,000 of the planes were manufactured during the ...

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.

The Douglas SBD Dauntless may have been slow ... Join us as we explore how this unassuming aircraft became a deadly weapon that helped turn the tide of the war! Judge Orders Federal Agencies ...

When one thinks of U.S. Navy aircraft carrier operations in the ... made him both the Navy’s first World War II fighter ace and its first WWII aviator to receive the Medal of Honor.