When war came to the US, he was already a seasoned flyer in, first, the SBC
Helldiver and, later, the SBD Dauntless.
Caption: A World War IISB2C
Helldiver was discovered by B&B Scuba, Inc., in Maui in 2010 and reported to NHHC.
New York, NY, July 24, 2014 --(PR.com)-- Jardur Watches will gift a World War II
Helldiver Navy gunner a vintage Jardur watch.
Rare World War II-era Curtiss
Helldiver SB2C discovered off the Florida coast...
Florida divers discover wreck of rare WWII plane Florida divers have found the wreckage of a rare World War II aircraft tentatively identified as a Curtiss
Helldiver SB2C on the ocean floor last month.
Late in 1943 the Dauntless dive-bomber was replaced by the marginally better
Helldiver. Overall, by November 1943 the U.S.
Some of those Americans were from the crews of three aircraft -- two B-24 bombers and a
Helldiver dive bomber -- shot down near Hiroshima on July 28, 1945 after a raid on Japanese warships in nearby Kure.
A former steelworker from New Castle, Pennsylvania, Long and several crew members from another Army Air Force B-24 and a Navy
Helldiver dive-bomber were under detention in Hiroshima when the bomb detonated.
He also made his way through radically different training in Dauntless dive-bombers, checking out in the SB2C Curtiss
Helldiver and then in the Hellcat itself.
But the dust jacket photos--an A-10A on the cover and a Curtis SB2
Helldiver on the back--suggested something else; those are not, after all, the airplanes one would pick if one were setting out to downplay the contributions of the Army and the Navy to the waging of modern warfare.