num_pages: 48
description: 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 June 30 1941.
language: English
title: Douglas XSB2D-1 & BTD-1 Destroyer
publisher: Ginter Books