scout planes, and dive bombers. Curtiss was also no stranger to the name “Helldiver”, as it was used with the Curtiss F8C observation/attack aircraft and the Curtiss SBC dive bomber ...
read about the plane’s Battle of Midway exploits in Gordon W. Prange’s excellent bestselling book Miracle at Midway. Accordingly, I’ve had a personal bias against the Helldiver for that same ...
The aviation world has welcomed a third Curtiss SB2C-1A Helldiver to the skies. On August 8th, after 45 years, BuNo 75552 ...