Douglas A-20 Havoc

The Douglas A-20 Havoc, company designation DB-7, was an American light bomber, attack aircraft, night intruder, night fighter and reconnaissance aircraft of World War II. It was designed to meet a United States Army Air Corps bomber requirement but was ordered first by France, whose DB-7 aircraft were the first to see combat; after the fall of France the bomber served with the Royal Air Force as the Boston, while night-fighter and intruder versions took the name Havoc from 1941. The prototype Model 7B first flew on 26 October 1938, and the redesign for the French order produced a deeper, narrower fuselage. The A-20G was the most produced variant at 2,850, and 7,478 A-20 and P-70 aircraft were built in all, the last in September 1944.