Aircraft · United States · 1939-1945
Douglas A-20 Havoc
light attack bomber
A fast, low-level light bomber, the Havoc flew ground-attack and night-intruder missions from North Africa to Normandy to New Guinea, strafing airfields and columns with a solid nose of forward-firing guns on its attack variants. Some 3,400 of the nearly 7,500 built were sent to the Soviet Union under Lend-Lease, where it was known as the Boston and where more of them served than with the USAAF itself.
| crew | 3 |
|---|---|
| top speed | 546 km/h |
| armament | up to 9x .50cal MG, 2,000lb bombs |
| produced | 7,478 |
Western Europe, Mediterranean and North Africa, Pacific