Wreckage of what is likely 1940-41 Ford Super Deluxe ‘Woody,’ in the hangar deck of USS Yorktown. (Courtesy of NOAA Ocean ...

The SB2U Vindicator was the US Navy's first monoplane dive bomber, serving in the 1930s and seeing action during the Battle of Midway in 1942. Though outdated by then, it played a key role before ...

But by 1938, the US Navy looked to Curtiss again to replace the Douglas SBD Dauntless, which had only just gone into service.

The Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber was trapped inside the USS Yorktown ... and was rediscovered by a U.S. Navy and National Geographic expedition in 1998. The wreck site was documented by ...

The U.S. Navy dropped nuclear bombs on its own ships loaded with rats and other animals to see the effect of nuclear weapons ...