SBD Dauntless part 2
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A-24 41-15780 with practice bomb dispenser under its left wing
A-24 42-54575 and 42-54574 Agadir
A-24 42-54750
A-24 Banshee
A-24 Dauntless rear gunner with M2 Browning
A-24B 42-54372
A-24B 42-54515 of Free French AF
A-24B 42-54882
A-24B 42-54897
Armorers check .30 caliber rear guns on SBD-3, November 1942
British Dauntless Mk I
British SBD Mk I
Catapult launch Off USS Independence 1943
Ceashed A-24A February 1943
Crew loading bombs on SBD at Henderson Field, Guadalcanal 1942
Crewmen are loading a bomb on an SBD-5
Dauntless Dive Bomber #55 in flight
Dauntless of the VMSB-132, 1941
Dauntless of the VMSB-241, Luzon March 1945
Dauntlesses at assembly line Douglas Plant Tulsa
Dauntlesses of RNZAF 1943
Douglas SBD-5 18 September 1942
F.J. Jayce, USN pilot, drinks fruit juice before going aloft, USS Yorktown
Free French A-24B 42-54575
French A-24 42-54750 at Mekens in Morocco
French A-24B Banshee, 1943/44
French AF A-24B 42-54699
French SBD 166 of the 4th Flottille Bombardement 4FB
French SBD-5
Gen Roy Geiger and Maj Sanderson over Quantico
Los Angeles Municipal Airport 1942
Lt John Blocker
Lt. Beverly Tinnin of VMSB-341 in cockpit of SBD
Lt. John A. Gibson of VMSB-341 in Cockpit of SBD
Lt. William C. Tassos of VMSB-341
Machine gun bullets wrapped around 100 pound bomb
Machine gun bullets wrapped around 100 pound bomb
Marine Dauntless #112 Bougainville 1943
Marine dive bomber pilot Carl Franson 1944
Marine SBD-1 of VMB-1
Marine SBD-5 #157 Bougainville 1943 2
Mechanics overhaul Wright R-1820 Cyclone engine
NAS Banana River
Navy SBD strike on Truk 29 April 1944
NZ5049 (ex BuNo 36897) "Winni-Pu-III" over Bougainville 1944
Photo Recon SBD #68
Photo-recon SBD-3P "U7" of the VJ-7 over San Diego
Pilot prepares to ditch Dauntless of VB-10 from USS Enterprise 29 March 1944
Prototype Northrop XBT-2, 1938
RA-24A 42-60877 of 14th Tow Target Squadron, 18 September 1943
RA-24B 42-54485 Banshee of the 14th Tow Target Squadron 18 September 1943
Radio Gunner Corp. Robert Harper of VMSB-341
Radio Gunner Sgt. Wally Ostrowski of VMSB-341
RNZAF and US SBDs
SBD 10 of the 25 Squadron RNZAF Seagrove
SBD 29-GS-2 aboard USS Chenango 19 February 1943
SBD aboard USS Enterprise 1942
SBD and A-24, 20 June 1941
SBD being lifted by a crane aboard carrier
SBD being serviced on the deck of the Lexington
SBD Dive Bombers 1941
SBD during the war-games in 1941
SBD launch from USS Independence 1943
SBD near Mt. St. Helens 18 July 1944
SBD of the MAG-11 painted in an overall Light Gray scheme
SBD of the VB-11 Guadalcanal
SBD of the VB-2
SBD of VC-22 aboard USS Independence 1943
SBD of VC-22 catapult launch off USS Independence 1943
SBD of VMS-3 over Caribbean
SBD Philippines 1945
SBD prepars to take off from Guadalcanal
SBD Rekata Bay 1942
SBD strike on Truk Atoll April 1944
SBD USS Enterprise 10 April 1942
SBD USS Enterprise 10 April 1942 2
SBD-1
SBD-1 1-MB-1 of the VMB-1
SBD-1 1-MB-1 of the VMB-1
SBD-1 1597 of the VMB-1 in flight
SBD-1 1621 of the MAG-11, 1941
SBD-1 2-MB-1 of the VMB-1 4
SBD-1 VMB-1 2
SBD-1 VMSB-132 1941
SBD-3 1941
SBD-3 aboard USS Ranger during Operation Torch
SBD-3 NZ5034 of No. 25 Squadron Espiritu Santo
SBD-3 of the VS-5, 1941
SBD-3 of the VS-5, USS Yorktown, 1941
SBD-3 VS-5 USS Yorktown
SBD-4
SBD-4 in flight
SBD-4s delivered during Navy Day celebration November 1942
SBD-4s under the palm trees at Espiritu Santo, 18 April 1943
SBD-5 #105 Bougainville 1943
SBD-5 #159 over Bougainville
SBD-5 151 Bougainville
SBD-5 1944
SBD-5 54088 of the VMSB-245 damaged by enemy fire
SBD-5 aboard a carrier getting ready for take-off
SBD-5 Atlantic ASW patrol
SBD-5 November 1944
SBD-5 of French Naval Aviation (Aeronautique Navale)
SBD-5 of the VB-10 over USS Enterprise
SBD-5 of the VB-4 USS Ranger October 1942
SBD-5 of the VMSB 231, USS Lexington en route to Majuro Atoll 13 May 1944 2
SBD-5 of the VMSB 231, USS Lexington over Majuro Atoll 13 May 1944
SBD-5 on flight deck of USS Lexington October 1943
SBD-5 Push Push of VMSB-144 over Bougainville
SBD-5 USS Lexington CV-16, November 1943
SBD-5 USS Yorktown before attack on Wake, October 1943
SBD-5s on the assembly line at El Segundo
SBD-6
SBD-6 equipped with 58 gallon drop tanks
SBD-6 with experimental fan installation. Wright Aeronautical Co. April 1944
SBD-6s of MAG-24 being scrapped at Malaban, July 1945
SBDs aboard USS Yorktown ready for take-off
SBDs after Munda attack
SBDs in tri-color paint scheme aboard carrier
SBDs near NAS Norfolk November 1942
SBDs of the VS-64 on a combat mission off New Georgia Island in the Solomon Islands January 16, 1944
SBDs on the USS Ranger 2
SBDs, TBF and F6F on the USS Ranger
Trials of a Duntless with a rocket system for assisted take-off.
Unloading SBD to barge from USS Copahee, Midway 21 May 1943
USMC SBD-3 1942
USMC SBD-5 formation en route to Rabaul 1944
USMC strike on Rabaul August 1944
USS Enterprise flight deck after Marcus Island raid, 4 March 1942
White SBD-5
SBD Dauntless photo gallery part 2