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Curtiss SB2C-5 Helldivers, Supermarine Spitfires, and North American T-6D/Gs were used in ground-attack missions against Communist ground forces, camps, and transports during the last stages of the Greek Civil War. [25] [26] Curtiss SB2C-5 Helldivers saw a relatively brief combat service and were gradually phased out by 1953. [24]
Curtiss F8C Helldiver, biplane reconnaissance bomber of the 1920s Curtiss SBC Helldiver , biplane scout bomber of the 1930s. Curtiss SB2C Helldiver , monoplane dive bomber of the 1940s, known as the Curtiss Helldiver in the Royal Navy
The Curtiss XBT2C was a prototype two-seat, single-engined dive/torpedo bomber developed during World War II for the United States Navy. Derived from the Curtiss SB2C Helldiver dive bomber, it was an unsuccessful competitor to meet a 1945 Navy specification for an aircraft to combine the roles that previously required separate types.
The Curtiss XSB3C was a proposed development by Curtiss-Wright of the Curtiss SB2C Helldiver dive bomber, submitted to meet a U.S. Navy requirement for a new dive bomber to replace the SB2C in service.
The Curtiss SBC Helldiver was a two-seat scout bomber and dive bomber built by the Curtiss-Wright Corporation. It was the last combat military biplane procured by the United States Navy . Delivered in 1937, it became obsolete even before World War II and was kept well away from combat with Axis fighters.
Curtiss XA-14, a twin engine ground-attack aircraft prototype, first flight September 1935 Curtiss A-18 Shrike , the operational version of the XA-14 with more powerful engines Curtiss SB2C Helldiver , known as the Curtiss A-25 Shrike ; a dive bomber first flown in December 1940
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The Curtiss SBC Helldiver was a biplane dive bomber that had been taken aboard the USS Yorktown (CV-5) in 1934, but it was slow, at 234 mph (377 km/h). Fifty ex-US Navy examples were flown to Halifax, Nova Scotia , by Curtiss pilots and embarked on the French aircraft carrier Béarn in a belated attempt to help France, which surrendered while ...