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Print Scale has released in 1/72 scale two decal sets for the SBD Dauntless and the US Army version the A-24 Banshee

72-411 - SBD Dauntless & A-24 Banshee in combat Part-1 – 1/72
1. SBD-2 “Black S-5" (BuNo unknown), VS-6, USS Enterprise (CV-6), used by AMM1/C Bruno Peter Gaido on 1 February 1942 off Kwajalein.
2. SBD-3 “Black S-10", BuNo 4690, flown by LTJG Stanley “Swede” Vejtasa & Rm3 Frank B. Wood, VS-5, USS Yorktown, Battle of the Coral Sea, 8 May 1942.
3. A-24 (SBD-3), “SHWAB’S WAGON”, 41-15824, flown by Cpt. Virgil Schwab & Sgt. Philip Childs, 8th Bombardment Squadron, 3rd Bombardment Group, Port Moresby, May 1942.
4. SBD-3 “Black 41-S-16", VS-41, USS Ranger, Operation Torch, November 1942.

72-412 - SBD Dauntless & A-24 Banshee in combat Part-2 – 1/72
1. A-24B-1-DO (SBD-5) 42-54298 "Bar Fly" 407th Bomb Group (Dive) Amchitka, Territory of Alaska July-August 1943.
2. SBD-5 “White 35", flown by LTJG George Glacken & RM Leo Boulanger, VB-16, USS Lexington (CV-16), early April 1944.
3. SBD-5, “White 51", NZ 5051, flown by F/Lt. J. W. Edwards & F/Sgt. L. A. Hoppe, No 25 Dove Bombing Squadron RNZAF, Piva, Bougainville, April-May 1944.
4. SBD-5 “ 169 ", former BuNo 36817, flown by SM Albert Jamais, Flotille 4FB, Aeronautique Navale, Cognac, southern France, late 1944 to early 1945.

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