After 14 years of outdoor display at Pensacola, Curtiss SB2C-4 Helldiver BuNo 19866-recovered from California's Lower Otay ...

On this day in aviation history, December 18, 1940, the Curtiss SB2C Helldiver dive bomber made its first flight. Plagued ...

“Helldivers were dive bombers ... to Puunene but realized they weren’t going to make it and had to ditch the aircraft in the water. Both climbed out to safety. In a shallower section of ...

The sinking of the Yamato cost the Americans 10 aircraft (four helldivers, three torpedo planes and three fighters — 12 pilots and aircrew). It appears Fuller’s VB82 squadron carried out the ...