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Title: Helldiver Info?
Post by: aztec on March 05, 2001, 09:15:00 AM

Anyone got any info on the Helldiver...#ers built, performance, effectiveness etc? Sure would appreciate it (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)

Title: Helldiver Info?
Post by: Westy on March 05, 2001, 09:17:00 AM

Here's a start:
 http://www.history.navy.mil/branches/hist-ac/sb2c-5.pdf (http://www.history.navy.mil/branches/hist-ac/sb2c-5.pdf)


-westy

Title: Helldiver Info?
Post by: Torgo on March 05, 2001, 09:48:00 AM

 

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Originally posted by aztec:
Anyone got any info on the Helldiver...#ers built, performance, effectiveness etc? Sure would appreciate it  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)

Numbers built: A lot

Performance: In practical terms, not really any better than the plane it replaced, the Dauntless, in any important way

Effectiveness: Hated by its pilots, had a lot of problems, and was obsolete by the time it made the fleet; aircraft like the Corsair could dive bomb just as well and were more survivable; it arrived at the end of the divebomber era.

Title: Helldiver Info?
Post by: aztec on March 05, 2001, 03:33:00 PM

Thx guys  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)