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. 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
| ISBN: | 9781855327320 |
| Publication date: | 27th November 1998 |
| Author: | Barrett Tillman |
| Illustrator: | Tom Tullis |
| Publisher: | Osprey Publishing an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 98 pages |
| Series: | Combat Aircraft |
| Genres: |
Second World War Modern warfare History of engineering and technology Aircraft and aviation Military vehicles Air forces and warfare History of the Americas |