Home > Combat Aircraft > Hobby Master > Hobby Master Diecast Military Aircraft (1:72 Scale) > World War II Military Aircraft > Douglas Dauntless Dive-Bombers >

USN Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless Dive-Bomber - VB-16, USS Lexington (CV-2), 1943 [Open Dive Brakes] (1:72 Scale)
USN Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless Dive-Bomber - VB-16, USS Lexington (CV-2), 1943 [Open Dive Brakes]

Hobby Master USN Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless Dive-Bomber - VB-16, USS Lexington (CV-2), 1943 [Open Dive Brakes]




 
List Price: $109.99
Our Price: $104.99 Sold Out!
You save $5.00!
You'll earn: 105 points

Stock Status: (Out of Stock)


Availability: Currently Unavailable
Product Code: HA0165

Description Extended Information
 
Hobby Master HA0165 USN Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless Dive-Bomber - VB-16, USS Lexington (CV-2), 1943 [Open Dive Brakes] (1:72 Scale) "Why should we have a navy at all? There are no enemies for it to fight except apparently the Army Air Force."
- General Carl Spaatz, Commander of the US 8th Army Air Force, after WWII

The Dauntless was the standard shipborne dive-bomber of the US Navy from mid-1940 until November 1943, when the first Curtiss Helldivers arrived to replace it. Between 1942-43, the Dauntless was pressed into service again and again, seeing action in the Battle of the Coral Sea and the Guadalcanal campaign. It was, however, at the Battle of Midway, that the Dauntless came into its own, singlehandedly destroying four of the Imperial Japanese Navy's frontline carriers. The SBD (referred to, rather affectionately by her aircrews, as "Slow But Deadly") was gradually phased out during 1944. The June 20th, 1944 strike against the Japanese Mobile Fleet, known as the Battle of the Philippine Sea, was the last major engagement in which it was used. From 1942 to 1944, the SBD was also used by several land-based Marine Corps squadrons.

Built as a two-seat, low-wing Navy scout bomber, the Dauntless was powered by a single Wright R1820 1200-horsepower engine. It became the mainstay of the Navy's air fleet in the Pacific, suffering the lowest loss ratio of any U.S. carrier-borne aircraft. A total of 5,936 SBDs were delivered to the Navy and Marine Corps between 1940 and the end of its production, in July 1944.

This particular 1:72 scale replica of a US Navy SBD-5 Dauntless dive-bomber was flown by VB-16, then embarked upon the USS Lexington during April 1943. Sold Out!

Dimensions:
Wingspan: 6-1/2-inches
Length: 5-inches

Release Date: April 2011

Historical Account: "In the Navy" - The fourth USS Independence (CVL-22, also known as CV-22) was a United States Navy light aircraft carrier, lead ship of her class.

Begun as the light cruiser Amsterdam, CL-59, she was launched as CV-22 on August 22nd, 1942, by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, located in Camden, New Jersey. The ship was sponsored by Mrs. Rawleigh Warner, and commissioned January 14th, 1943, with Captain G. R. Fairlamb, Jr., in command.

The first of a new class of carriers converted from cruiser hulls, Independence conducted shakedown training in the Caribbean. She then steamed through the Panama Canal to join the Pacific Fleet, arriving in San Francisco July 3rd, 1943. Independence got underway for Pearl Harbor on July 14th, and after 2 weeks of vital training exercises sailed with the carriers Essex (CV-9) and Yorktown (CV-10) for a devastating raid on Marcus Island. Planes from the carrier force struck on September 1st and destroyed over 70 percent of the installations on the island. The carrier began her next operation, a similar strike against Wake Island from October 5th to 6th.

Features
  • Diecast construction
  • Spinning propeller
  • Accurate markings and insignia
  • Opening canopy
  • Comes with two seated pilot figures
  • Comes with display stand

Share your knowledge of this product with other customers... Be the first to write a review

Browse for more products in the same category as this item:

Combat Aircraft > Hobby Master > Hobby Master Diecast Military Aircraft (1:72 Scale) > World War II Military Aircraft > Douglas Dauntless Dive-Bombers
Aircraft Hangar > World War II: War in the Pacific > Blunting the Sword (Jan 1943 - Dec 1943)