SBD-3 BuNo 4690, Lt. (j.g.) Stanley W. ‘Swede’ Vejtasa and Chief Radioman 3rd Class Frank B. Wood, Scouting Five, USS Yorktown (CV5), May 8, 1942. During the Battle of the Coral Sea on May 7, 1942, Swede and several other SBD pilots sank the Japanese...
SBD-3 BuNo 4687, Lt. Richard H. ‘Dick’ Best and Chief Radioman James F. Murray, Bombing Six, USS Enterprise (CV6), June 4, 1942. Dick Best was the commanding officer of VB-6, USS Enterprise, during the Battle of Midway. Best flew B1 on two missions on June...
Curtiss P-40B, 2nd Lt. George Welch, 47th PS, 15th PG, USAAC, Haleiwa Air Base, Hawaii. Lt. Welch was one of only a handful of USAAF pilots who managed to get their planes off the ground and engage the Japanese on the morning of December 7th, 1941 during the Japanese...
Tomorrow is the 80th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Rasmussen was one of only 14 U.S. pilots who managed to get airborne that...
Making slow progress on the SBD-3 profile. I’m still trying to locate dimension and detail information for the DF antenna inside the cockpit so that will likely be one of the last items added. So far markings research has been completed for the following pilots:...
