I've been an A10 fan since I read about them when I was a kid in the 80's. LOVE THE UGLY BEAST!
Course, I loved it even more in the Army.
If you think A-10 is nice, how about this:
"Slow, but deadly" was the nickname given during WWII. It was 100mph faster than a Ju87 while fully loaded and could get large bombs aloft from an escort carrier that didn't have cataputs. Once the bombs were dropped the only limit in a dogfight was the pilot's ability to stay consious because the airframe was rated for 12g and could handle much more than that without breaking.
Dauntless pilots and back seat gunners are credited with shooting down over 130 Japanese aircraft and were sometimes used as CAP.
BTW: If I was a modern airforce pilot, which I'm thankfully not, there is no way I'd be able to outmaneuver an SBD pilot.
The SBD, like the F4F Wildcat, had 1,200 HP. The Japanese A6M2 had a 940hp engine and wasn't designed to handle the kinds of "were actually doing this" close quarters knife fights Americans call "Tuesday".