The SBD Dauntless, nicknamed “Slow But Deadly” by its pilots, is best remembered for its performance at the Battle of Midway, where the dive bomber was credited with sinking four Japanese ...

whose experience at Midway led to a change in fighter tactics ... leading nine of Zuiho’s Zeros to escort Japanese torpedo and dive bombers, let the first wave of Americans pass, but was ...

In contrast, in the months after Midway, tens of thousands of new and superior Hellcat fighters, Avenger torpedo bombers, and Helldiver dive bombers rolled off American assembly lines in numbers ...

Navy pilot John Leppla was credited with shooting down five Japanese aircraft in aerial combat before he was shot down and declared Missing in Action.