As of 2020, the only known surviving aircraft confirmed to have participated in the Battle of Midway is a Douglas SBD-2 Dauntless, Bureau Number 2106. The plane, a veteran of the Pearl Harbor attacks and the early 1942 island raids, had been handed down to U.S. Marine Scout Bombing Squadron 241, operating from Midway Island, in May 1942. The plane, flown by First Lieutenant Daniel Iverson Jr. and Private First Class Wallace Reid, barely survived the island's unsuccessful counterstrike against the Japanese fleet on June 4, 1942, returning to Midway with over 200 holes and both crew members wounded. Named "Midway Madness" after the battle, the plane returned to the United States to be used as a trainer aircraft. It crashed into Lake Michigan in 1943, and was recovered in 1994. After restoration, it is now in the National Naval Aviation Museum in Florida.

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