The Sbd Dauntless is an aircraft carrier base dive bomber. It could carry 1 1,600 lb of bomb and 2 350 lb bombs, it also had 2 .50-cal machine guns mounted in the nose and had 1 7.62 manually aimed machine gun in the back. It had a crew of 2, one pilot and one rear machine gunner. The Sbd Dauntless had a top speed of 254mph and had a range of 453 mi on a bombing mission and a 771 mi range on a scouting mission. The Sbd Dauntless was one of the most famous carrier base dive bomber of WWII.
Information from the book Warbirds by Max Haynes
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