File:Curtiss SB2C-1 Helldiver of VB-5 land aboard USS Yorktown (CV-10) with a broken tail wheel, circa in May 1943 (80-G-K-15830).jpg

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English: A U.S. Navy Curtiss SB2C-1 Helldiver of Bombing Squadron 5 (VB-5) lands on board the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-10) with a broken tail wheel, circa in May 1943. The SB2C-1 Helldivers were then undergoing carrier qualification tests on the Yorktown. Note the flight deck crewmen running to assist.
The results of the carrier qualifications were disastrous, for the SB2C Helldivers suffered numerous mechanical difficulties, not the least of which was the propensity for the aircrafts' tailhooks to pull out of their wells during recovery aboard the ship. Yorktown's skipper, Captain Joseph C. "Jocko" Clark, became so irate that he had them replaced with Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless dive-bombers, which VB-5 eventually took into combat. Clark even recommended the dropping of the SB2C program.
Date circa May 1943
date QS:P571,+1943-05-00T00:00:00Z/10,P1480,Q5727902
institution QS:P195,Q3250126
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80-G-K-15830
Source U.S. Navy photo 80-G-K-15830
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