When one thinks of U.S. Navy aircraft carrier operations in the months leading up to the Battle of Midway, one name that readily comes to mind is Lt. Edward “Butch” O’Hare, the F4F-3 Wildcat pilot ...
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 ...
This is the story of SBD Dauntless Dive Bomber Gunner Dick Miralles and his incredible trip to fly again in his plane at the ...
The Commemorative Air Force Airbase Georgia Museum held an open house on Saturday in Peachtree City to commemorate the 80th ...
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 ...
The sounds and sights of WWII will mark Veterans Day and the 80th anniversary of the end of WWII at the Commemorative Air ...
The Douglas A-20 was one of the most popular and effective US light bombers of World War 2. It would also, strangely enough, ...
The last time anyone saw three newly-rediscovered military aircraft, U.S. forces were pummeling Japanese targets in the western Pacific during World War II."Operation Hailstone" in February 1944 was a ...