At Midway, the Dauntless was credited with sinking or mortally wounding each of the four Japanese aircraft carriers involved in the battle. Arguably the most important U.S. aircraft in World War II’s ...

The carrier Akagi led Japan’s strike on Pearl Harbor, her aircraft igniting the Pacific War. But just six months later, fate ...

When one thinks of U.S. Navy aircraft carrier operations in the months leading up to the Battle of Midway, one name that readily comes to mind is Lt. Edward “Butch” O’Hare, the F4F-3 Wildcat pilot ...

There are more Midway heroes to remember. The decisive destruction of the Japanese carriers by dive bombers (Letters, Feb. 17) was largely due to the absence of Japanese fighters at altitude to attack ...

Associated Press Smoke billows from the USS Yorktown and bursts from anti-aircraft fire fill the air after a Japanese bomber hit the aircraft carrier in the Battle of Midway near Midway Islands during ...

On June 4, 1942, during the Battle of Midway, Lt. Richard Best of Squadron VB-6 aboard the USS Enterprise flew an SBD Dauntless bomber against the Japanese fleet known as the Kidō Butai. In the fierce ...

The Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber was trapped inside the USS Yorktown with this bomb still attached to its cradle. The aircraft carrier was sunk by a Japanese submarine after the 1942 Battle of ...