CURTISS SB2C HELLDIVER (CROWOOD AVIATION SERIES)
Written by Peter C. Smith
Published by The Crowood Press
in 1998
ISBN: 1861261411
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Front cover
Contents
- Introduction and Acknowledgements
- 1. The Development of the Helldiver
- 2. Rapid Expansion
- 3. Disaster!
- 4. Trials and Tests
- 5. The Helldiver Described
- 6. The Nadir
- 7. A New Beginning
- 8. The Helldiver Goes To Sea
- 9. Into Battle
- 10. Stillborn: The Australian Experience
- 11. Strangled: The British Experience
- 12. The Helldiver in the Fleet Air Arm
- 13. The Philippine Sea
- 14. Leyte Gulf
- 15. South China Sea to Iwo Jima
- 16. Okinawa
- 17. End of the Road: Japan
- 18. Fkying the Helldiver: The American Experience
- 19. Post-War Operations
- 20. A War of Attrition: The French Experience
- 21. Survivors
- Appendix I: US Navy and Marine Corps SB2C Units at the End of World War II, 7 September 1945
- Appendix II: SB2C Units on 1 February 1947
- Appendix III: SB2C Units on 1 February 1948
- Appendix IV: US Navy SB2C Carrier VB Squadron Deployment
- Appendix V: US Navy SB2C Carrier VA and VT Squadron Deployment