Capt. David E. McCafferty, GRC, Coll #3208, PC 615, Box 2, Folder: McCafferty, David E., WWII Photos - Aviation-GuadalcanalThis picture from the Special Collections of the Archives Branch of the Marine Corps History Division shows VMSB-232’s “MB-26” on Guadalcanal shortly after the squadron arrived on August 20, 1942. This image was key in the restoration of the NMMC’s SBD-3 Dauntless, which is marked as “MB-21.” - Capt. David E. McCafferty, GRC, Coll #3208, PC 615, Box 2, Folder: McCafferty, David E., WWII Photos - Aviation-Guadalcanal This picture from the Special Collections of the Archives Branch of the Marine Corps History Division shows VMSB-232’s “MB-26” on Guadalcanal shortly after the squadron arrived on August 20, 1942. This image was key in the restoration of the NMMC’s SBD-3 Dauntless, which is marked as “MB-21.”
Restoration is carried out on a World War II-era Douglas SBD-3 Dauntless dive bomber that will be installed in the National Museum of the Marine Corps. The airplane was lost in Lake Michigan toward the end of the war and was recovered in the 1990s. - Restoration is carried out on a World War II-era Douglas SBD-3 Dauntless dive bomber that will be installed in the National Museum of the Marine Corps. The airplane was lost in Lake Michigan toward the end of the war and was recovered in the 1990s.