Witnesses saw the Navy SBD Dauntless spin to the right, then to the left and hit the water. The pilot and radioman were killed.
He offered to instruct pilots for free, and the success of the training convinced the admirals that airplanes had a future in the service. They eventually shifted their attention to a carrier-led force, basing the first flat-top, the Langley, there in 1922.
In early June 1942, at the Battle of Midway, Dauntless bombers flying off American aircraft carriers wrecked four Japanese carriers and a cruiser.“For the first half of the war in the Pacific, the Dauntless was the most effective American weapons system,” said Karl Zingheim, historian for the, the carrier-turned-museum in San Diego that’s named for the battle. “It helped change the direction of the war.
About 15,000 aviators were killed in stateside training accidents during the war. About 2,400 of them are still listed asOn Aug. 24, 1943, Capt. William Rozelle Parks Jr. and radioman Richard Harold Moore climbed into an SBD-3 Dauntless at NAS San Diego. Parks, who was from New Orleans, had been flying for about a year. Moore had been married earlier in the year in his hometown of Bloomington, Ill.; his wife had just joined him in San Diego.
When a crash boat arrived, it found debris in the water: an oxygen bottle, three rolled-up and singed towing tubes and two gloves.Surfacing from his dive last October, Stalter wondered what kind of airplane he’d found. Stalter learned from a friend about some World War II records, and in those he found an entry describing the Aug. 24, 1943, crash of the Dauntless.The records included an ID number for the plane, which enabled him to track down the accident report. It described how the Dauntless was towing a target tube that day, and another piece of the puzzle fell into place. Towing would explain the winch on the bottom of the wreckage.
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