Dive Bomber

Dive Bomber movie poster.

Movie (1941)

Starring:
Errol Flynn (Lieutenant Douglas S. Lee)
Fred MacMurray (Lieutenant Commander Joe Blake)
Ralph Bellamy (Lieutenant Commander Lance Rogers)

Hollywood testimonies towards surgeons of the US Navy in their efforts to find solutions to high altitude flying and tigh maneuvers of the new generation airplanes. Full technicolor just in time the U.S. Navy started to paint their planes in grey.

Vought SB2U-2 Vindicator

Vought SB2U-2 Vindicator, s/n 1333, of VB-3 "Black Panther", U.S. Navy.

Vought SB2U-2 Vindicator of VB-6 "Black Rams", USS Enterprise, U.S. Navy.

Vought SB2U-2 Vindicator of VS-41, U.S. Navy.

Douglas TBD-1 Devastator

Douglas TBD-1 Devastator of VT-3 "Dragons", U.S. Navy.

Brewster F2A Buffalo

Curtiss SBC-2

Curtiss SOC-2 Seagull

With its black cowling, here on wheels as SOC-2(usually on floats as SOC-1 or SOC-4).

Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-1 Canary

Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-1, s/n 1978.

Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-3 Canary

Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-3, s/n 2590.

Consolidated PB2Y Coronado

Sorry about the poor screenshot ! The four engines, twin tails and yellow wings with a natural metal fuselage is a Consolidated PB2Y Coronado.

Another one is seen in flight among the flypast at the end of the movie (sorry for the small size of this screenshot).

Grumman F3F-2

Grumman F3F-2, s/n 0978 of VF-6, U.S. Navy.

Grumman F3F-3

Grumman F3F-3, s/n 1451.

Seen too through a model.

Ryan ST-A

Fitted with a cowling design for a radial engine and acting as the latest british fighter !

Consolidated PBY-4 Catalina

Some others are seen near the Consolidated PB2Y Coronado (one in the Blue Grey paint scheme, the other one in the old Chrome Yellow -like the Coronado-).

Lockheed L-10A Electra

North American SNJ-3

North American SNJ-3, s/n 6786 of the U.S. Navy.

Vought OS2U Kingfisher

Between the red cowling and the yellow wing of two Grumman F3F.

Northrop BT-1

Northrop BT-1 of VB-5 "Red devils" but wearing the VS-41 badge. Only 54 of this aircraft have been built.

Northrop BT-1 with a mechanic on its wing.

Link Trainer

Another one more colorfull (the blind canopy is yellow and in place of the engine, the pre-war US roundel).

Ashtray

One of the numerous objects linked to aviation seen throughout the insider scenes . This unidentified shape (which looks like a Wedell-Williams Special) worn the sentence : "Bachelor Officiers Quarters / Naval Air Station Pearl Harbor".