Editor’s Note: A Good Thunder farm boy and pilot Ensign Jack Carl Fuller died 80 years ago Monday in one of the key battles ...

The history of Japanese dive bombers during World War II is often overshadowed by the dramatic successes of American air ...

Frank Rico’s broken arm. In 2001, a private dive team searching for the B-29 using sidescan sonar found the wreck in the northern arm of Lake Mead. Because the bomber lies inside a National ...

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 ...

In the process, it made history as the first English all-metal aircraft built for dive-bombing and torpedo-bombing purposes. The plane was ordered as a replacement for both the Swordfish and yet ...

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.