SBD-5 Database - iModeler

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Items tagged with SBD-5
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Revell (Matchbox) 1/32 SBD-5 Dauntless

by Spiros Pendedekas on March 22, 2022
in Aviation — 34 Comments

Hi everyone! This is my Revell (Matchbox) 1/32 SBD-5 Dauntless, finished as a U.S. Marines bird. "Scout Bomber Douglas" (SBD) Dauntless was the US Navy's main carrier-based scout/dive bomber from mid-1940 through mid-1944. It was [...]

VB-9 strikes Rabaul

by Tom Cleaver on September 4, 2019
in Aviation — 20 Comments

On November 1, 1943, American forces landed on Cape Torokina at Bougainville. That night, the Navy fought the Battle of Empress Augusta Bay, which stopped a Japanese force of heavy cruisers from disrupting the invasion and forced them to [...]