[Milsurplus] Identify USAAF aircraft ?

[Glen Zook]

If there is no glass behind the rear seat when the canopy is closed it sounds an awful lot like the SBD Dauntless dive bomber.  Now SBD is the Navy nomenclature and most of the aircraft were used by the Navy.  However, the Army Air Corps did operate this aircraft as the A-24.

Glen, K9STH

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--- On Sun, 7/19/09, Hue Miller <kargo_cult at msn.com> wrote:

Someone here know their WW2 USAAF aircraft pretty well? Trying to identify a 2-seat USAAF plane with BC-224-A installed for the rear seater. It has a long glassed cockpit. Looks like the rear seater slides his cockpit closure forward into and under the rest of the cockpit glass. When he slides this forward, there is no other glass portion behind behind him, only the metal aircract fuselage, which looks like the line of the cockpit open rises slightly to the airframe proper. The 224-A is on the surface right in front of rear seater. I assume the BC-307-A is on a surface below. Would be extremely difficult to adjust, i think. This in Radio News, May 1942. I believe the photo actually taken before outset of WW2.