The Air Zoo welcomed a very special guest last week, Dr. Arthur J. Lendo who is traveling across the country to honor his uncle, John Henry Lendo. Dr. Arthur Lendo has donated more than $100,000 to ...

Following its arrival in 2021, the Air Zoo of Kalamazoo, Michigan, is now in the final stages of restoring the las SBD-1 ...

At Midway, the Dauntless was credited with sinking or mortally wounding each of the four Japanese aircraft carriers involved ...

The SBD made her maiden flight on April 22, 1938, and officially entered service the following year. The deadly efficacy of dive-bombing, as proven by Nazi Germany’s infamous Junkers Ju-87 Stuka ...

PEACHTREE CITY, Georgia (Henry Daily Herald) — WWII Veteran Dick Miralles slid into the gunner’s seat of the SBD Dauntless Dive Bomber almost as easily as he did 80 years ago in the South Pacific.

Robert “Andy” Anderson, 89, of Helena Flats shouldn’t have survived World War II after stalling out upside-down while pulling out of a high-speed dive or flying a plane riddled with dozens of bullet ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich. (NEWSCHANNEL 3) - A new piece of history is heading to the Air Zoo in Kalamazoo this week. The museum will be restoring a Douglas SBD dive bomber, which was used in World War II. The ...

Click to open image viewer. Single engine, low wing, carrier based scout/dive bomber.Both sides of fuselage: "109," U. S. star and bar insignia. On the tail, "Navy" and U. S. Navy Bureau of ...