The Snapshots in Time Collection
U.S.N.T.S. Aircraft Recognition Card: SBD/A-24 Dauntless Scout Bomber (Form 2, Columbus, Ohio, 12-8-42)
A 1942 U.S. Navy Training School recognition page for the Douglas SBD Dauntless (Army designation A-24), the dive bomber credited with turning the tide at the Battle of Midway. Photographs and silhouette diagrams trained wartime aircrew and observers to identify the type instantly by its distinctive perforated dive flaps and elliptical wings. Project: 218069