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| Keywords: SBC-4 New York Naval Air Reserve 1941.jpg A U S Navy Curtiss SBC-4 Helldiver BuNo 1813 assigned to Naval Air Reserve Air Base New York Floyd Bennett Field in flight Note the NRAB New York insignia on the fuselage of the aircraft The SBC-4 BuNo 1813 was one of the aircraft transferred to USAAC on 8 June 1940 and then to the French Navy 44 were loaded aboard the French aircraft carrier Béarn at Dartmouth Nova Scotia France surrendered while Béarn was crossing the Atlantic; she turned south to Martinique where the SBC-4s corroded in the humid Caribbean climate while waiting on a hillside near Fort-de-France 5 aircraft left in Canada were used by the Royal Air Force as instructional airframes can from Robert L Lawson ed The History of US Naval Air Power The Military Press New York USA 1985 ISBN 0-517-414813 p 36 US Navy cited as source http //collections naval aviation museum/emuwebdoncoms/pages/doncoms/AdvQuery php U S Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation photo No http //collections naval aviation museum/emuwebdoncoms/pages/doncoms/Display php irn 16033946 QueryPage 2Femuwebdoncoms 2Fpages 2Fdoncoms 2FAdvQuery php 1996 253 116 b/w ca 1940 USN PD-USGov-Military-Navy Curtiss SBC Helldiver United States Naval Air Reserve Floyd Bennett Field | ||||
