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Dauntless Dive Bomber of World War Two,The by Barret Tillman Soft Cover
Dauntless Dive Bomber of World War Two,The by Barret Tillman
Soft Cover
232 pages
Copyright 2006
CONTENTS
forewordvii
prefaceix
chapter 1birth of the dauntless2
chapter 2into combat18
chapter 3coral sea30
chapter 4midway56
chapter 5guadalcanal92
chapter 6eastern solomons126
chapter 7santa cruz144
chapter 8the other ocean162
chapter 9pacific offensive172
chapter 10 the last battle188
appendix a surviving dauntlesses210
appendix b dauntless specifications216
notes219
bibliography 223
index227
ON THE BACK COVER
The U.S. Navy's SBD dive bomber, popularly known as the Douglas Dauntless, was well named. It made its mark in aviation history by sinking more enemy carriers than any other aircraft. At the Battle of Midway, the Dauntless turned the tide of war in the Pacific with the destruction of four Japanese carriers. Though considered nearly obsolete when the war began, the SBD was still in service at war's end. It was-the only American navy aircraft to fly in all five of the naval engagements fought exclusively by aircraft carriers, and it was credited with sinking the first Japanese fleet submarine and dropping the first bombs on Japanese-occupied soil. Active in the Atlantic as well, the Dauntless sank Vichy French shipping at Casablanca and German vessels in Scandinavian waters.
This book provides an authoritative account of the missions along with a rousing story of the men who took the "slow but deadly" Dauntless into combat. Readers meet the SBD squadron that flew unexpectedly into the Pearl Harbor attack and the pilot who nearly single-handedly knocked out a Japanese carrier but died in the process. Widely acclaimed when published in hardcover in 1976, the book is now available for the first time in paperback. Author Barrett Tillman is the son of an SBD Marine pilot, and he helped restore the Dauntless on exhibit at the Marine Corps Museum in Quantico, Virginia. Tillman is the author of Corsair, Hellcat, and Wildcat, among other books.
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