Joseph S. Howanski: Martin BM

Artist: Joseph S. Howanski
1954 -
Nationality: American
Artwork Year: 1992
Image Size: 8.5 by 6.25 inches
Overall Size: 12 by 9 inches
Medium: Pen and Ink on Water Color Paper

Though the initials "BM" weren't necessarily intended to mean "benchmark," the Martin BM was exactly that. The first U.S. Navy aircraft specifically designed to serve as a dive bomber, the two-man BM-2 was the initial progeny of a tactical concept that was still in its infancy in the late 1920s. The first prototypes of this all-metal biplane were ordered in 1928. But only enough production models of the BM-2 were made for two squadrons, which served aboard the U.S. aircraft carriers Saratoga and Lexington through the mid-1930s, an era in which U.S. armed forces were operating under severe budget constraints. The BM-2 was a foreshadowing of the future of the U.S. Navy's dive bomber force, which was instrumental in many of America's successful naval battles in World War II.

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