Short answers, pulled from the story.
The Douglas SBD Dauntless was the United States Navy's main carrier-based scout and dive bomber from mid-1940 through mid-1944. It was also flown by the United States Marine Corps from both land air bases and aircraft carriers.
Navy and Marine Corps crews began calling it Slow But Deadly, playing on its SBD initials, during 1942, when the aircraft proved devastating in combat despite its modest speed.
A total of 5,936 SBDs were built during the war. The last one rolled off the assembly line at Douglas's plant in El Segundo, California, on the 21st of July 1944.
In early June 1942, four squadrons of Navy SBD dive bombers sank or fatally damaged all four Japanese fleet carriers present at Midway, disabling three of them within six minutes.
The U.S. Army Air Forces flew a land-based version called the A-24 Banshee, which lacked the arrestor hook used for carrier landings and replaced the solid tail wheel with a pneumatic tire.
Lieutenant William E. Hall and Lieutenant John James Powers both received the Medal of Honor for actions flying SBDs during the Battle of the Coral Sea in May 1942. Powers was awarded his posthumously after being killed in action on the 8th of May 1942.