The Helldiver would remain in Navy and Marine Corps service until 1950, but after the war, the U.S. sold surplus Helldivers to the navies of Italy, Portugal, Thailand, Greece, and France.

From 1944 to 1945, Helldivers flying off the US Navy’s Essex-class fleet carriers partook in battles over the Marianas, the ...

U.S. Navy dive bomber squadrons flew Curtiss SB2C Helldivers against Imperial Japan beginning in November 1943 until the end of the war. Changes in carrier tactics, technology, and weapons made the ...

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Curtiss SB2C-5 Helldiver scout-bomber, of Bombing Squadron Ten (VB-10), flies over Tientsin, China, as the city is ...

SAN DIEGO — More stories, photos, video about the sunken Navy SB2C-4 Helldiver. Joe Corsi remembers being flown to Hope, Ark., in 1943 to work on a plane that had made a forced landing because ...

U.S. Navy Helldivers with the USS Essex (CV-9) near Okinawa in 1945. Fagen’s airplane is painted to represent a bomber of VB-83, the squadron seen in the photo.

It has sat submerged in more than 85 feet of water at the bottom of Lower Otay Lake, but on Wednesday morning plans call for the Navy SB2C-4 Helldiver that crashed there in 1945 to be salvaged and ...

U.S. Navy divers are currently spending the week off the coast of Florida investigating quite an unusual find: A Curtiss SB2C Helldiver lying upside down approximately 185 feet below the water’s ...

Designed to replace the legendary Dauntless, the Curtiss SB2C Helldiver arrived with high expectations—and deep controversy. Plagued by problems yet heavily used, it became the U.S. Navy’s ...

The Navy SB2C-4 Helldiver sank 90 feet to the bottom of Lower Otay Reservoir 65 years ago. On Wednesday, salvage experts brought up a portion of the aircraft's canopy.

The Oregonian reported in 1948 that on March 31 searchers found the wreckage of a Navy Helldiver that had crashed a few hours earlier on a wooded ridge east of Rockaway Beach. The pilot was killed.

U.S. Navy dive bomber squadrons flew Curtiss SB2C Helldivers against Imperial Japan beginning in November 1943 until the end of the war. Changes in carrier tactics, technology, and weapons made the ...