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

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.

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 ...

The Curtiss SB2C-4 Helldiver recently transferred to the USS Midway Museum was originally accepted into the US Navy’s inventory on July 25, 1944, and delivered two days later on July 27 under ...

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 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 ...

Navy pilot E.D. Frazar before he boards an SB2C-4 Helldiver. Frazar was the pilot of the Helldiver that ditched into the Lower Otay Reservoir on May 28, 1945. Photo courtesy of Richard Frazar ...

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.

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.

First, the average warfighter in “Helldivers 2” is far more complex and self-contained than real-world operations in Vietnam. You, as one of up to four players, have a space destroyer and a ...

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 ...

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 ...