As this reporter argued in an article in The National Interest published on January 23, 2025, the U.S. Navy’s Douglas SBD ...

Shortly before 8 a.m. on Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese ... the western side of the Koolau Mountain range. Each had a red fuselage stripe indicating it came from the aircraft carrier Akagi.

by virtue of its smashing feat of sinking four Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) aircraft carriers—the Kaga, Akagi, Sōryū, and Hiryū—during the Battle of Midway in June 1942, one of the most ...