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| Keywords: SBD-2 Naval Aviation Museum.jpg Rolling off the Douglas Aircraft Company assembly line in El Segundo California in December 1940 SBD-2 Dauntless BuNo 2106 was delivered to bombing squadron VB-2 at Naval Air Station NAS San Diego California on the last day of 1940 On 10 March 1942 flown by Lt jg Mark T Whittier with AR2C Forest G Stanley as his gunner the aircraft joined 103 other planes from USS Lexington CV-2 and USS Yorktown CV-5 in a raid against Japanese shipping at Lae and Salamaua in New Guinea It was then transferred to Marine scout bombing squadron VMSB-241 on Midway Atoll arriving there with eighteen other SBD-2s on 26 May 1942 on board the aircraft transport USS Kitty Hawk APV-1 On the morning of 4 June 1942 with 1st Lt Daniel Iverson as pilot and PF1c Wallace Reid as rear gunner the aircraft was one of sixteen SBD-2s of VMSB-241 launched to attack Japanese aircraft carriers to the west of Midway After unsuccessfully attacking the carrier Hiryu enemy fire holed the plane 219 times It was one of only eight SBD-2s of VMSB-241 to return from the attack against the Japanese fleet Returned to the US it was repaired and eventually assigned to the Carrier Qualification Training Unit CQTU at NAS Glenview Illinois On the morning of 11 June 1943 Marine 2nd Lt Donald A Douglas Jr ditched the aircraft in the waters of Lake Michigan during an errant approach to the training carrier USS Sable IX-81 Recovered in 1994 the aircraft underwent extensive restoration at the museum before being placed on public display in 2001 Elements of its original paint scheme when delivered to the fleet are still visible on its wings and tail surfaces shortened U S Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation photo No 16028043 http //collections naval aviation museum/emuwebdoncoms/pages/common/imagedisplay php irn 26992 reftable ecatalogue refirn 16028043 2007-11-14 U S Navy PD-USGov-Military-Navy SBD Dauntless museum aircraft Aircraft at National Museum of Naval Aviation | ||||
