SBD Dauntless Üksused Ii maailmasõda – Combat Aircraft 10

Allkirjastatud raamat Osprey Kirjastus the book «SBD Dauntless Units of World War 2 – Combat Aircraft 10» .

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

Allikas: SBD Dauntless on Osprey Publishing