The Fairey Barracuda made history as the first English all-metal aircraft built for dive-bombing and torpedo-bombing purposes ...

And when World War II erupted in earnest in September 1939, the Stuka spearheaded Germany’s Blitzkrieg into Poland, France, ...

Meanwhile, hard on O’Hare’s heels in Lexington lore was a Douglas SBD-3 Dauntless team whose activities seemed just as much devoted to fighters as to dive bombers. John Arthur Leppla was born ...

Airbase Georgia has launched the return of the popular Georgia Warbird Tour, a campaign that will bring living history […] ...

Nearly 6,000 of the planes were manufactured during the war and served as the U.S. Navy’s primary carrier-based scout/dive bomber from 1940 until mid-1944. The SBD Dauntless, nicknamed “Slow ...

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.