{"id":72406,"date":"2024-06-25T03:00:13","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T17:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/douglas-sbd-dauntless-most-effective-us-dive-bomber-ww2\/"},"modified":"2024-06-25T03:00:13","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T17:00:13","slug":"douglas-sbd-dauntless-the-most-effective-us-dive-bomber-of-ww2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=72406","title":{"rendered":"Douglas SBD Dauntless: The Most Effective US Dive Bomber Of WW2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            As I&#8217;ve said in several previous Simple Flying articles as well as my <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/author\/christian-orr\/\">author&#8217;s bio page<\/a>, my two favorite warplanes of all time are the <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/top-5-historic-missions-b-52-stratofortress\/\">Boeing B-52 Stratofortress <\/a>strategic bomber and the Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber. After having penned three articles on the former, I now have the honor and pleasure of writing a standalone article on the latter proud warbird.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Slow But Deadly&#8221; Dauntless wasn&#8217;t just the most effective US dive-bomber of WW2. It was an outright game-changer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,1455,6831,412,240,708,409],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-bomber","category-douglas-aircraft","category-military","category-north-america","category-us-navy","category-world-war-ii"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72407,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72406\/revisions\/72407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}