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IIRC Barrett Tillman's "The Dauntless Dive Bomber of World War Two" goes into a lot of detail on the dogfights won or survived by SBDs against Japanese aircraft. I make the distinction because "survived" sometimes includes opponents who were driven off as well as shot down. And the SBD, too, appears to have a plus score in the air to air arena, if Tillman's figures are to be believed. Not sure it would have done so well against the Luftwaffe - the Germans seem to have built their aircraft a bit more solidly - but in the hands of an aggressive pilot and gunner who worked well together, it was no pushover.