SBD Dauntless Units of World War 2: Combat Aircraft
Ebook
Overview
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
- Title: SBD Dauntless Units of World War 2
- Authors: Barrett Tillman, Tom Tullis
- Series: Combat Aircraft
- Publisher: Osprey Publishing
- Print Publication Date: 2012
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 100
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781782006558, 1782006559
- Resource ID: LLS:9781782006558
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T14:30:05Z
Edward M Young received his BA in Political Science from Harvard University and his MA from the University of Washington. Prior to his retirement he was a banker and financial analyst, with assignments in New York, London, Tokyo and Hong Kong. He is the author of several books on aviation history. For Osprey he has written Campaign 136 - Meiktila 1945 and Warrior 141 - Merrill's Marauders.
Mark Styling has illustrated many titles for Osprey including Aircraft of the Aces, Combat Aircraft and Aviation Elite Units series since 1994. Now based in Bridport, Dorset, he produces accurate illustrations of any chosen aircraft type. He has created some of the best artwork available to Osprey, and his nose art panels are legendary.