The SBD was also flown by the United States Marine Corps, both from land air bases and from aircraft carriers.
US Navy and Marine Corps SBDs saw their first deployment at Pearl Harbor when most of the Marine Corps SBDs of Marine Scout Bombing Squadron 232 (VMSB-232) were destroyed at the bottom of Ewa Mooring Mast Field.
Most US Navy SBDs flew from their aircraft carriers, which did not operate in close cooperation with the rest of the fleet. Most Marine SBDs at Pearl Harbor were destroyed on the ground like their Marine Corps counterparts.
On December 10, 1941, SBDs from USS Enterprise sank Japanese submarine I-70.
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SBD-1 2-MB-2 of VMSB-232 Red Devils, MCAS Ewa Mooring Mast Field, Territory of Hawaii, 7 Dec 1941;
SBD-1 132-B-4 of VMSB-132 Crying Red Asses, MCAS Quantico, Virginia USA late 1941.
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