Historical Collections of the Great Lakes Photo from the 1921 edition of Popular Mechanics magazine
Propulsion: Three 250psi Babcock and Wilcox boilers, two 3,000ihp vertical quadruple expansion Great Lakes Engine Works engines, two shafts. Armament: Two 3"/50 dual purpose gun mounts. Renamed Delphine, she currently operates out of Monaco. 
Sold in 1997 to a European businessman and towed to Bruges, Belgium for restoration, which lasted from February 1998 to July 2003. Sold in 1989 to Sea Sun Cruises, a French - Singapore Co. Sold in 1986 to Travel Dynamics of New York City. Sold in 1968 to the Lundeburg Seamanship School of Piney Point, MD and renamed Dauntless. Donated to The People to People Health Foundation in 1967. Acquired in 1966 by Anna Thomson Dodge of Grosse Pointe. Returned to her prewar owner, Anna Dodge Dillman of Grosse Pointe, MI and renamed Delphine. Transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal 10 June 1946. 
Struck from the Naval Register 5 June 1946. Struck a rock in Lake Huron in 1940 off Manitoulin Island, Ontario, Canada, but suffered only minor damage. After four months on the bottom, was raised and rebuilt at cost of $750,000. Burned and sank in the Hudson River, New York in 1926. Gielow and built in 1921 and built as the steel-hulled yacht Delphine at a cost of $2,000,000 by the Great Lakes Engine Works, Ecorse, Michigan The second Dauntless was designed by H.J. Please take a moment to let us know so that we can correct any problems and make your visit as enjoyable and as informative as possible. Actually, that’s not entirely fair to the Buffalo, as Finnish Air Force Buffalo pilots actually used the fighter to devastating effect against the Soviet Air Force during the so-called Continuation War of 1941-1944, as 36 of Finland’s 96 top fighter pilots became aces in Brewsters, including six of the top 10.Dauntless (PG-61) Please report any broken links or trouble you might come across to the Webmaster. The stubby, ungainly-looking Brewster Buffalo has been dubbed by some wags as the worst fighter plane of WWII. The Brewster F2A3 Buffalo: Another Noble Sacrifice That gave a huge opportunity to the American dive bombers, which arrived undetected to zoom down from high altitudes and dropped bombs on the carrier flight decks.” The American aircraft also managed to strafe the Japanese fleet, which caused the carriers to take sharp evasive maneuvers, which limited the Japanese ability to quickly recover and refuel their fighters. As Peter Suciu explains in The National Interest: “However, the TBSs – without really intending to do so – kept the shipboard guns and more importantly the defending Japanese aircraft occupied at low altitude. The Devastator crews’ sacrifice was not in vain, however. Among the Dauntless pilots who managed to kill the vaunted Japanese Zero was the legendary Stanley “Swede” Vejtasa, who pulled off this highly improbable feat as a young Lieutenant (j.g.) during the Battle of the Coral Sea. 30 caliber machine guns, but also by the pilots themselves who made good use of the plane’s forward-firing, cowling-mounted Browning. 
Mind you, this wasn’t just accomplished by the SBD’s rear gunners with their swivel-mounted. Even more impressive is that the Dauntless stands out as the only WWII bomber with a positive kill ratio against enemy fighters, with 138 officially credited air-to-air victories vs. Navy carrier-based combat aircraft in World War II. as well as the sinking of the heavy cruiser Mikuma and severely damaging the heavy cruiser Mogami.Īdding to the SBD’s impressive wartime laurels are the fact that it could also claim the lowest loss ratio of any U.S. SBD-dropped 1,000-pound bombs were solely responsible for the sinking of the four Japanese aircraft carriers- Akagi, Kaga, Sōryū, and Hiryū. The Douglas SBD Dauntless-specifically the SBD-3 version in this instance-without a doubt was the weapons system that did the lion’s share of the damage to the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during the battle. Yes, I know, there’s the philosophy of “ Save the Best for Last ,” but I’m going to be a contrarian here and start off with the “valedictorian” of the Midway warplane class (so to speak). “Slow But Deadly”: The Douglas SBD Dauntless
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