Description
SBD-1/2/3s, Navy & Marines 1941-3.Complete markings, including stencils, to cover one of seven famous Dauntlesses. First is SBD-3 Black 10, LT Swede Vejtasa, VS-5, USS Yorktown, Battle of the Coral Sea, May 1942. Next is SBD-2, CDR Howard Young, Commander, Enterprise Air Group, Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941. This is one of the birds that flew in to Pearl soon after the attack. Next is White S-8, Lt William Hall, VS-2, USS Lexington, Battle of the Coral Sea, May 1942. The very interestingly marked SBD-3 Black 41-S-16, VS-41, USS Ranger, Operation Torch, November 1942., is next. An improbably marked SBD-3 White 2-S-9, VS-3, NAS Oakland, September 1941 was painted in an experimental green over Light Gray scheme. The last two subjects were present at Ewa Mooring Mast Field, Territory of Hawaii on the morning of 7 December 1941 during the Japanese attack. First is SBD-2 White 2-B-6, of VMSB-232. This bird, although it did not take off, was manned by a couple of Marine sergeants who fired the aft flexible .30 machine gun at attacking Japanese Zeros. It was pretty badly shot up in the attacks. The final subject is SBD-1, White 2-MB-2, VMSB-232. The markings on these two planes were extremely unexpected and in violation of Marine markings directives of the time, a subject examined and discussed in the instruction sheet.
