[Lonesome in Massachussets]

SB2C = Son of Bitch, 2nd Class.

[Paladin2]

Nice day.

[TimSkalaBim]

'the SB-Deuce had more bugs than an Oriental flophouse.'

[central_va]

One of the few instance were the replacement wasn't as good as the replaced.

[Arlis]

Thanks LIM. My deceased uncle flew one of these in WWII, and crashed twice and lived miraculously through both.

One was on a land strip where he flipped and slid upside down into an ammunition storage building, and it did not go off.

The other was off a carrier into the water where it too flipped hitting the water upside down. Very few could get out of a plane hitting the water upside down, but he did.

He later became a prominent Florida architect and mayor of a major city.

My 93 yr. old father will love seeing this article and hearing about it. He was also in the Navy, retired from the reserves a Captain, and it’s a miracle he and my mother - 95 - are still living and well.

arlis

[95B30]

Lets not forget that it was this dive bomber that landed many a bomb on the decks of Jap carriers at the Battle of Midway.

[SES1066]

This being California, I can’t help but wonder what kind of “Environmental Impact” statement was required for this operation. After all this aircraft was almost ‘native’ to the place after all of these years. Just think of the millions of fish that have sheltered there over the years that now lack this shelter!

[Vroomfondel]

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