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The Dauntless played a starring role in the war in the Pacific. The SBD ("Scout Bomber Douglas") was the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps scout plane and dive-bomber from 1940 to 1944. They first saw action at Pearl Harbor flying off the USS Enterprise, but are best remembered as the bomber that delivered the fatal blows to Japanese carriers at the Battle of Midway in June 1942. In total, the Dauntless sank more enemy shipping than any other Allied bomber.

From Pearl Harbor through April 1944, SBDs flew 1,189,473 operational hours, with 25 percent flown off aircraft carriers. SBDs sank six Japanese carriers, 14 enemy cruisers, six destroyers, 15 transports or cargo ships and scores of lesser craft.
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Author Bernard Spragg. NZ from Christchurch, New Zealand
Camera location21° 21′ 33.67″ N, 157° 57′ 41.67″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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This image was originally posted to Flickr by Bernard Spragg at https://flickr.com/photos/88123769@N02/14873385420 (archive). It was reviewed on 27 November 2017 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-zero.

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