At Midway, the Dauntless was credited with sinking or mortally wounding each of the four Japanese aircraft carriers involved ...

June 4, 1942. The pride of the Japanese navy, the carriers that struck Pearl Harbor, believe they have already won the Battle ...

There was bittersweet irony in Best’s accomplishment. It was his most successful mission, and also his last. As this reporter argued in an article in The National Interest published on January 23, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Douglas SBD Dauntless was one of the truly great aircraft of World War II. It played a major role throughout the Pacific. On June 4, 1942, during the Battle of Midway, SBDs destroyed four Japanese ...

An SBD Dauntless at the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Triangle. This aircraft, which was lost in a training accident in 1943 and sank to the bottom of Lake Michigan, was recovered in 1991.

Pilot John Leppla, right, was a WWII Navy ace, credited with shooting down five Japanese aircraft in aerial combat before he was shot down and declared Missing in Action. (U.S. Navy/National Archives) ...