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Naval Fighters Number Thirty: Douglas XSB2D-1 & BTD-1 Destroyer (Repost)

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Naval Fighters Number Thirty: Douglas XSB2D-1 & BTD-1 Destroyer (Repost)

Bob Kowalski, Steve Ginter, Douglas Aircraft, Harry Gann - Douglas XSB2D-1 & BTD-1 Destroyer
Ginter Books | 1995 | ISBN: 0942612302 | English | 48 pages | PDF | 47.3 MB
Naval Fighters Number 30

Bob Kowalski continues the saga of the bomber Torpedo (BT) program and the similar Scout Bomber (SB) program with the obscure story of the Douglas XSB2D-1 and BTD-1 "Destroyer".
The United States was still at peace when the Navy issued a requirement for a design to serve with the fleet as both a successor to the SBD, which would be nearing obsolescence, and as a possible replacement for the SB2C, which was undergoing what can charitably be called a prolonged proportional development period. To meet this requirement, two prototypes of the SXB2D-1 were ordered by the Navy on 30 June 1941.